[sane-devel] Re: SANE, Darwin, Umax Vista-S6E problems

[Julien BLACHE]

Randolph Fritz <randolph at panix.com> wrote:

Hi,

>> > So, then.  Let's try narrowing this down.  Does anyone have a Umax
>> > Vista-S6E working with SANE on any version of Mac OS 10.2?
>> 
>> That's unlikely. The UMAX backend still uses fork ().
>
> The code is already there for OS/2--I removed the conditional.  But it
> still fails in the same way--stops a bit of the way into a preview
> scan with a timeout.

Err, it's not /that/ simple. If somebody can give a try to the
attached patch, please tell me how it goes.

(I do not have such a scanner, and I'm not the backend maintainer, I
wrote the patch because a friend needed it, but it's not been tested
yet...)

JB.

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Julien BLACHE                                   <http://www.jblache.org> 
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