[sane-devel] Network protocol implementation

[Andre Herms]

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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:52:47PM +0100, Andre Herms wrote:
> > Okay - I tried to reinvent the wheel :-). I took the sane documentation
> > and tried to write my own saned. I implemented the specs (SANE Network
> > protocol, found on the sane homepage). I didn't work together with the
> > net backend. So I took the original saned source code and had to
> > recognize, that it doesn't confirm with the specs.
> >
> > There were some bugfixes in the saned and this is good but the specs
> > where not updated.
>
> If I remeber correctly, all the fixes done by me were implementation
> bugs, not bugs in the satndard itsself. However, I don't know what
> happened before I touched the code.
>
> Do you remember which part of the protocol exactly is wrong/not updated?

Not exactly - only it had something to do with the parameters. There was a 
pointer to an integer instead of a integer or something like that. I only 
know that it was impossible for me to figure out what the correct parameters 
for some functions were. So later I copied the saned code and it worked :-).



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Andre Herms                   mailto:aherms at cs.uni-magdeburg.de
                              http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aherms
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