Hi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:37:30PM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote: > 1) The problem with the inherited filedscriptor to the > html viewer is a backend related problem.
Oh, so my assumption that I'm the only one who noticed that "problem" was wrong :-) > My prefered way is that the backend can be opened by > several frontends at the same time and it only does block > when a frontend starts the scan. If the backend can only be > opened by one frontend it may help to add your suggested > fcntl() function, but this must be done in the backend. That's a good idea. I'll try that in my backends. I hope fcntl() is portable? Bye, Henning