Hello, On Aug 26 20:41 m. allan noah wrote: > Pthread is the default on other platforms because they generally don't > let open usb device handles pass across a fork(). Since this works on > Linux, and threads were so flaky all those years ago, non-threaded > became the default for Linux. Honestly, I think it could be changed, > but I don't think pthread is as well tested, since most user's use > whatever their distro compiles :)
Then a question to the Linux distribution people on this list is whether or not there is perhaps already a Linux distribution which compiles sane-backends with the non-default configure setting "--enable-pthread". Or was this perhaps done in the past but because of whatever issues it was changed back to the default? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
