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Qt5 application hangs-up when QNetworkAccessManager and QEventLoop is used on Mac OS

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To be more specific, problem occurs only in very specific circumstances. It’s in situation, when application is compiled as console-app and it’s compiled on Mac OS X version older than 10.9:

CONFIG -= gui
CONFIG -= console

and when you’re using QEventLoop::exec in mode processing all events except user events (QEventLoop::ExcludeUserInputEvents):


//it's only demonstration, not full code...
QNetworkAccessManager manager; ...
QNetworkRequest request; ...
QNetworkReply *reply = manager->post(request,arData);
...

eventLoop.exec(QEventLoop::ExcludeUserInputEvents);

In this situation, application hangs-up. When the application is compiled with GUI mode or when application is compiled on Linux/Windows (no matter if gui or console), everything works find. To fix this problem, it’s necessary to implement hack similar to this (simplified version):

   bool bAllowUserInputEvents = false;

#if defined(PLATFORM_MACOS) && defined(AX_APP_CONSOLE)
   bAllowUserInputEvents = true;
#endif

  if ( bAllowUserInputEvents == false )
    eventLoop.exec(QEventLoop::ExcludeUserInputEvents);
  else
    eventLoop.exec(QEventLoop::AllEvents);