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

[m. allan noah]

Yes- I have reverted the earlier fix, and added the DIY version, along
with a number of other fixes from the bug tracker.

allan

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen
<olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:
>
> 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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