Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: Hi,
> The CUPS backend runs only as long as one particular print job > is sent to the device, then it finishes. Same for saned. > But how to deal with a user who runs a frontend to scan > multiple sheets on a all-in-one device and in between > a (longer) print job comes (e.g. from a remote machine)? Exactly the same situation we have today. The locking I am talking about is only between SANE clients, in the sense that it would be possible to tell a user "Sorry, this scanner is already in use" instead of whatever non-obvious message you get today. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
