On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: > > 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? >
I know Fedora does not enable pthreads... but I do not know if its intentional. I think a lot of distributions assume disabled features are that way for a reason and don't bother with enabling them to much unless issues like this come up. Chris
