[interfacekit] Re: BMessageRunner: negative interval

> a question about behavioral compatibility. BMessageRunner can be 
> initialized with a negative time interval. This is semantical 
> nonsense, 
> but it seems to cause the messages to be sent as fast as possible. I 
> suspect that this is a bug caused by sloppy parameter checking, since 
> supplying 0 for the interval is not allowed -- InitCheck() returns 
> B_ERROR in that case.
> 
> I tend to forbid all values <= 0. Are there objections?
> 
> Oh I forgot to mention, that those negative numbers work well with 
> small positive count parameters (the number specifying how many times 
> the message shall be sent), but obviously the target's message port 
> is 
> flooded when count is -1 (unlimited number of repetitions).

Err, I guess, I sent my mail a bit early. I was wrong with my 
suspicion, that the messages are sent with maximal speed. If the 
supplied time interval is smaller than a minimal value (50000 if it 
isn't machine dependent), then this minimal interval is used instead. 
This is also the case for negative values. So if I copy this behavior, 
I think, for consistency the handling should be the same for 0, 
shouldn't it?

CU, Ingo

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