I've corrected this for the gphoto2 backend. Pete Fales
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:33:42PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > Just to make sure all backend authors read the info covered in the gphoto2 > thread: > > Do not use exit() and similar functions (e.g. abort()) in backends. This will > effectively kill the frontend and stop the normal SANE way of doing things. So > no other scanners can be selected. Other scanners can't be closed properly > (because sane_close and sane_exit can't be called). > > Just use return() to leave the current function and set an appropriate > SANE_Status code on error. > > It's ok to use _exit() to leave a forked process. > > >From a quick grep I found the following backends use exit(): > > * avision.c > * tamarack.c > * v4l.c (in v4l-grab.h, doesn't seem to be used, however) > * gphoto2.c > > Other files that contain exit(): > > * /sanei/sanei_pio.c > > > Bye, > Henning > > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
