Filesystem Plugin

[breautek]

[breautek]

The main blocker is iOS, whose implementation had a poor understanding/bad assumption of how Apple's objective-c file read API works.

It assumes that the API is blocking, like the standard c API, but it does not. In some situations it may read 0 bytes when it expects at least 1 byte. In other cases it will loop, potentially repeatedly 0 bytes until bytes is actually available. This obviously bashes the thread by doing pointless iterations and causes unnecessary CPU usage.

The proper way of utilising the API is by implementing a delegate and responding to delegate callbacks.