[sane-devel] pthreads for MacOSX (instead of child process)

abel deuring a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:23:10 +0100


Hubert Figuiere wrote:
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> On vendredi, f=E9v 14, 2003, at 18:59 Europe/Paris, abel deuring wrote:=

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>> don't want to discourage you (after all, this approach would save the
>> Sane developer some work ;), but Beat has already asked about such
>> things on Apple's Unix-porting mailing list, and the answers were not
>> very promising:
>>
>> http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/unix-porting/msg01809.html
>> http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/unix-porting/msg01814.html
>>
>> (fortunately on the better oganized part of the mailing lsit archive, =
at
>> least currently) Please note the password hints in the authentication
>> dialog.
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> My approach is a little different and IMHO should work. The device=20
> driver would keep the mach_port and act as an interface with the outsid=
e=20
> world.

I understand. This sounds indeed very promising.

Abel