On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:18 AM James Ring <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > In developing jfreesane (pure Java client for saned, > https://github.com/sjamesr/jfreesane), I've found that it's useful to > run saned locally with a known configuration (e.g. 1 test device, 4 > test devices, various test device configurations). This is complicated > by the fact that saned will only ever listen on sane-port as specified > in /etc/services, or 6566 if that entry is not present. > > Would there be any interest in patching saned to accept a -p (port) > argument, which may be zero if an ephemeral port is desired? In the > ephemeral port case, the selected port is logged so the test may find > it. > > I attached a proposed patch. What do you think?
I opened https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/549, that seems like a better place to discuss this. > Regards, > James
