Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: Hi,
>> sane-backends in Debian has been using pthread since Feb 2009. > > I assume there have been no issues because of this > (otherwise you would have told us). Nope, no issues so far. > Now I think about --enable-pthread for the next openSUSE version > and if there are bug reports because of this I could switch back > to the default. Threads are actually better from a "least surprise" PoV; big applications are already threaded so it's not an issue for them, small applications aren't threaded so it's usually not a problem here either. fork()ing, on the other hand, can have quite some side-effects. > I wonder why there is no reply from sane-backends package maintainers > of other Linux distributions - perhaps everybody on summer vacation? Simply put, because SuSE and Debian are the only distributions that actually care about SANE. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
