Re: May sane_init fail?

Tripp Lilley (tlilley@perspex.com)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:15:11 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> Hmmh, this may well be a typo. I'm quite sure our intention was that
> a frontend does not have to check for the return value of sane_init()
> (i.e., treat it as a void). Note that none of the existing frontends
> check the return status of sane_init(). I think we should correct
> this in v2 of the SANE protocol.

The as-yet unreleased Perl module (SANE.pm) invokes die() if it receives
anything other than SANE_STATUS_GOOD on return from sane_init. But it's
unrelease, so I wouldn't have expected you to know that :-)

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