[sane-devel] Stuck somehow in porting to Win98/ASPI

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:48:32PM +0200, Richard Metzger wrote:
> Please, what is the design here? Shouldn't the child block the pipe,
> so that the parent only returns from read(), when the child wants it
> to?

Parent: create pipe, fork, close writing side of pipe, wait for data
        from reading side of pipe
Child:  close reading side of pipe, send data to writing side, when
        finished close writing side
Parent: when writing side is closed by child, close also reading side	

Bye,
  Henning