[sane-devel] [New backend] Web Services for Devices - wsd-scan

[Till Kamppeter]

I am also not that familiar with the details of libcups. Best is you ask on
the CUPS developer mailing list.

   Till

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 13:56 Alexander Pevzner <pzz at apevzner.com> wrote:

> On 1/6/20 5:18 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> > In my opinion libcups should get moved into a project separate from
> > cupsd, as it is the standard implementation for IPP in free software,
> > and with the PWG (Printer Working Group, http://www.pwg.org/) IPP Scan
> > and IPP System Service libcups will not stay a print-only thingy but
> > will also serve for scanning and other things.
>
> Three questions:
> 1. Is it correct, that libcups doesn't need an explicit initialization,
> or, at least, its initialization code is internally protected, so it
> doesn't have a requirement to be initialized from the main thread of the
> main executable?
> 2. Is it correct, that libcups as HTTP client can be used on
> non-blocking manner with poll/select based event loop?
> 3. Is it correct, that libcups HTTP API allows asynchronous reading of
> the HTTP reply body?
>
> I'm not very familiar with libcups, but my impression that all answers
> are "yes". Am I correct?
>
> --
>
>         Wishes, Alexander Pevzner (pzz at apevzner.com)
>
>
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