[sane-devel] run saned on ephemeral port

[James Ring]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:18 AM James Ring <sjr at jdns.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> In developing jfreesane (pure Java client for saned,
> https://github.com/sjamesr/jfreesane), I've found that it's useful to
> run saned locally with a known configuration (e.g. 1 test device, 4
> test devices, various test device configurations). This is complicated
> by the fact that saned will only ever listen on sane-port as specified
> in /etc/services, or 6566 if that entry is not present.
>
> Would there be any interest in patching saned to accept a -p (port)
> argument, which may be zero if an ephemeral port is desired? In the
> ephemeral port case, the selected port is logged so the test may find
> it.
>
> I attached a proposed patch. What do you think?

I opened https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/549,
that seems like a better place to discuss this.

> Regards,
> James