RE: Bluetooth on OS X

[Siegfried Schloissnig]

Hi,
 
> Thanks. I looked through the code. What is the reason for using threads?
> Cant we avoid it?

  You may have noticed the call to CFRunLoopRun() at the end of thread_main.
The CFRunLoop is responsible for dispatching the messages (interrupts) the
OS receives from the hardware to the registered callbacks. This means that
in our case the data listener for incoming bluetooth messages gets called.
Since the CFRunLoop never returns you have to decouple it into a separate
thread.

  If try hard you could get rid of the thread, but it would involve large
changes to other parts of gnokii. 


cheers,
  Siegfried