but would it not achieve the same effect? is the backend really written with two different threads/processes which need to coordinate access to the device?
allan On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote: > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it seems that on linux at least, if the device is left open, no other > > process can open it? this achieves the same effect, without any code > > at all. > > That's not exactly the intended use of the mutex... > > > > JB. > > -- > Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> > <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169 > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
