[sane-devel] USB device locking in the snapscan backend

Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org
Sun Feb 24 17:43:40 UTC 2008


"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> it seems that on linux at least, if the device is left open, no other
> process can open it? this achieves the same effect, without any code
> at all.

That's not exactly the intended use of the mutex...

JB.

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