[sane-standard] SANE2: Threading

[m. allan noah]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> "m. allan noah" <anoah at pfeiffer.edu> writes:
>
>> [snip]
>> if we determine to keep the threading/forking support, what about the
>> possibility to 'move' this code up one layer, perhaps into the dll
>> backend? then we only have to write it once, as opposed to in each
>> backend. perhaps a layer between the dll and regular backends?
>
> Won't that introduce problems when applications link with a backend
> (other than the dll backend) directly?  The SANE standard specifically
> allows this and even touts it as a "feature".
>

when i look at the various sane backend .so files, they have modified 
versions of the function names in the sane api. so any such direct linking 
would require a different compilation of the backend?

if so, perhaps this intermediate loader could be linked as well...

allan

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