Jochen Eisinger wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> >
> > [Jochen Eisinger]
> > > What about just checking the backend name against "dll" while
> > > reading the dll.conf? This avoids that dll segfaults if dll is
> > > listed in the dll.conf.
> >
> > Why do dll segfault? Shouldn't this be fixed first?
> Because the dll - backend is loaded recursivly about 100.000 times...
> actually dll doesn't segfault, but sooner or later one of the backends
> segfaults when allocating new memory.
>
> > I have not tested the patch, but it looks OK to me. I only suspect it
> > might be the wrong fix. :-)
> Ok, might be... I've another fix: instead of linking libsane.* to
> sane/libsane-dll.* we could copy libsane-dll.* to libsane.* and remove
> the dll-backend from the lib/sane/ directory. This way, the dll-backend
> can't load itself (because it isn't present as a backend)
>
> what about this?
>
Hi Jochen,
I think the right way is to look for "dll" in dll.conf and ignore it.
There is a good reason for the links form libsane.so to sane/libsane-dll.so:
All sane libraries can be used directly. You can link from
sane/libsane-mustek.so to libsane.so and the mustek backend is loaded directly.
If someone adds dll to dll.conf it is his fault, if I program a recursive loop
that allocates memory I also get in trouble. So checking for dll in dll.conf
is the correct way. dll should print a warning when it finds "dll" in dll.conf
and ignore that.
Bye
Oliver
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