Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote:
Hi,
sane-backends in Debian has been using pthread since Feb 2009.
I assume there have been no issues because of this
(otherwise you would have told us).
Nope, no issues so far.
Now I think about --enable-pthread for the next openSUSE version
and
Hello,
On Aug 28 08:29 Julien BLACHE wrote (shortened):
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote:
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became the default for Linux. Honestly, I think it could be changed,
but I don't think pthread is as well tested, since most user's use
whatever their distro compiles :)
sane-backends in
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
became the default for Linux. Honestly, I think it could be changed,
but I don't think pthread is as well tested, since most user's use
whatever their distro compiles :)
sane-backends in Debian has been using pthread since Feb 2009.
JB.
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote:
Hello,
On Aug 26 20:41 m. allan noah wrote:
Pthread is the default on other platforms because they generally don't
let open usb device handles pass across a fork(). Since this works on
Linux, and threads were so
Hello,
currently we (i.e. openSUSE/Novell) compile sane-backends
with its default configure setting --disable-pthread for Linux.
A consequence is that the mustek_usb2 backend is not built
because it requires --enable-pthread, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633780
Therefore I
Pthread is the default on other platforms because they generally don't
let open usb device handles pass across a fork(). Since this works on
Linux, and threads were so flaky all those years ago, non-threaded
became the default for Linux. Honestly, I think it could be changed,
but I don't think
