macOS API calls must be thread safe
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tresf commented
Per hidapi
, macOS HID API calls MUST be executed on the same thread to be safe:
Currently, separate threads interacting with a HID devices on macOS, the entire JVM will crash. This can actually be caused by same-thread execution due to this automatic shutdown hook.
- #37
- Workaround: qzind/tray@5e45845
hid4java/src/main/java/org/hid4java/HidServices.java
Lines 90 to 99 in 672f0a7
Despite this being an upstream issue, Java has some ways of thread pooling so that we can manage this downstream until upstream has a permanent fix.
@Vzor- will be submitting a PR which references this issue with a proposed downstream threading solution.