[sane-devel] Suicidal Child Process - SANE

[m. allan noah]

what scanner and backend are you using?

allan

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Ian Harding <harding.ian at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is kind of odd
>
> % catch [exec scanimage] foo
> Terminated
>
> When I exec scanimage from inside AOLServer, it goes ahead and shuts
> down the server.  I figured out that it happens when the scanner is
> on, and ready, but does not have a document in the ADF.
>
> From the command line it looks like this
>
> $ scanimage
> scanimage: sane_start: Document feeder out of documents
> scanimage: Received signal 15
> scanimage: Trying to stop scanner
> scanimage: Received signal 15
> scanimage: Aborting
>
> There may be a "status" of some kind I can check from SANE without
> crashing before I try scanning but I haven't found it yet.
>
> Is there any way to prevent this from killing my server in the
> meantime or is "catch" the biggest gun I have for that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ian
>
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