[sane-devel] getenv(SANE_USB_TIMEOUT)

[René Rebe]

Lev A. Melnikovsky wrote:
> ...nice to hear from you
>
>   On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 at 3:08pm, Ren? Rebe wrote:
>
> RR> The user should not be able to mess the timeouts from the environment. 
> Actually the user is always able to do _anything_ from the 
> environment(LD_PRELOAD).
>
> And we do already have SANE_SCSICMD_TIMEOUT and SANE_NET_TIMEOUT, don't 
> we?
>
> RR> The backends should know precisely how long a response takes, 
> RR> especially to return to the user if the scanner got "stuck".
> RR> If one device requires it's own timeouts then go fix the backend to set it.
> Well, I don't feel myself competent enough to suggest specific timeouts 
> for a few scanner models. My particular unit works much better after I 
> change libusb_timeout=120*1000. I have no idea if this is going to help 
> others. I'll be completely satisfied if someone provides a general 
> solution which just works.
>   
Sure the use can, with an own library implementation, Qemu, whatever. 
But poking
those is like poking your PCI registers with a hex editor.

Go fix the SANE backend to set the timeout to 120* whatever for just your
specific model.

Joe Ubuntu users do not want to google to death how to get the scanner 
working
reliably by setting a environment variable, anyway.

Yours,

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