Re: ( XSane parameters or buffer bug

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 00:28:39 PDT

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    Nick Lamb wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:09:44PM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote:
    > > Although it is not nice that xsane produces a segfault it
    > > makes sense to create the gamma table before sane_start is
    > > called. The creation of the gamma tables can take some time
    > > and it is not good to interrupt the scanning for this
    > > what can happen on slow computers.
    >
    > Perhaps you could simply check if the value has changed when
    > re-reading the parameters and only generate a new gamma table
    > in that case? Defensive programming is in order because a
    > frontend will be used with many backends, perhaps ones we will
    > never hear of.
    >
    > Nick.

    Hi Nick,

    I am working on a solution for this.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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