1107585 - move the mtransport WrapRunnable infrastructure into XPCOM, generalizing NS_RunnableMethod{,WithArg}

Status: NEW

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

People keep using WrapRunnable in all sorts of places, or re-inventing NS_NewRunnableMethod*; we should just extend NS_NewRunnableMethod appropriately.  This might also help get rid of some of the post-to-chromium-message-loop bits that people keep writing.

I have a refactoring of WrapRunnable lying around; I need to go through it again and make sure that all the C++ template magic is sufficiently magical.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I very much want the template instantiation to be explicit, not implicit. See bug 622728 comment 5 and comment 21-24. Implicit potentially non-owning types are a footgun.