[sane-devel] Schedule for release of sane-backends 1.0.24

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Sergey Vlasov writes:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:41:19PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> m. allan noah writes:
>> 
>> > That is one option. The other is to do own own upcasing, [...]
>> 
>> Sure, but why bother if you can use standard library API?
>
> setlocale() has a process-wide effect - if a multithreaded process
> uses the SANE API on one thread and has other threads running at the
> same time, using setlocale() even temporarily can interfere with
> operations performed by other threads.

Hadn't thought of that, sorry.

Indeed, there is no mention of the change being thread-local so this
could affect a multi-threaded frontend.  In that case, it might be a
better idea to roll our own upcasing.

Allan, please revert dd4f26a805ed7be8e30b3cd655de891141a9530d and apply
the patch you suggested in [1].

 [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2013-August/031641.html

Hope this helps,
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