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

[m. allan noah]

but would it not achieve the same effect? is the backend really
written with two different threads/processes which need to coordinate
access to the device?

allan

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> "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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