[sane-standard] SANE2: Threading

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

"m. allan noah" <anoah at pfeiffer.edu> writes:

> [snip]
> if we determine to keep the threading/forking support, what about the
> possibility to 'move' this code up one layer, perhaps into the dll
> backend? then we only have to write it once, as opposed to in each
> backend. perhaps a layer between the dll and regular backends?

Won't that introduce problems when applications link with a backend
(other than the dll backend) directly?  The SANE standard specifically
allows this and even touts it as a "feature".

Hope this helps,
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