Re: Porting SANE backends

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 17:47:07 +0100

Svend Daugaard Pedersen wrote:

> It's correct that amiga has a multi-tasking system (and the access
> to the SCSI port is in fact always done in a separate task), but
> 'fork' is not an ANSI C routine and it is not easy to implement on
> C systems not having it.
>
> The fact is that I have given up porting some of the backends because
> of this 'fork'. As you can see from my comments, I know that there are
> good reasons for using it. What I'm asking for is that it is used in
> a way that makes it possible to remove (in the snapscan backend there
> is code for the case that fork fails).
>

How do you start a new task on the amiga?

Bye
Oliver

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