[sane-devel] RE: (Big?) Problem with fork() in OSX

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:42:46PM +0100, abel deuring wrote:
> Theoretically, it could be possible to replace the fork call with
> somethink like "sane_fork".

There is already a sanei_thread.h which solves fork problems for OS/2.

> For sane (i.e., non-darwin) operating
> systems, this function would just call fork; for Macos, sane_fork could
> additionally duplicate/reopen all necessary, hmmm, "non-filedescriptors"
> which are required by the child process to access the scanner. The
> necessary information could be collected by sanei_scsi_open or
> sanei_usb_open.

Nice idea. But sanei_usb doesn't know anything about MacOS. It just
uses libusb. So if there is no libusb_regain_access(), I don't think
we can do anything here.

Bye,
  Henning