[sane-devel] saned + win32-xsane problem

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:16:13PM -0700, Keith Clayton wrote:
> I re-did my tests.

Nice. But it looks like you forgot to attach the results :-)

> 2nd test: used xsane to do a remote preview scan then attempt a regular
> scan once the preview has completed and the scanner head returned to
> starting position.  preview scan is fine, regular scan dies.  xsane
> bails completely.  saned is left running.  scanner is inaccesible even
> from host box and needs to be power cycled.  One interesting thing I
> recognized in the process table of the host box is that there where *2*
> saned processes running.  Looks like the preview scan in xsane uses the
> saned process started with SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 saned -d255 but then
> the subsequent regular scan attempt forks the saned process so there are
> 2 saned -d255 processing running and then it dies.  Note: saned is
> disabled in xinetd so its not getting started that way.  

The plustek backend uses fork() (or rather sanei_thread_begin() ) to
start a reader process after the start of the scan. So you get two
processes everytime a scan is ongoing. So if you see two saned
processes that just means that the plustek backend is still scanning
(or trying to scan).

Bye,
  Henning