...nice to hear from you On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 at 3:08pm, Ren? Rebe wrote:
RR> The user should not be able to mess the timeouts from the environment. Actually the user is always able to do _anything_ from the environment(LD_PRELOAD). And we do already have SANE_SCSICMD_TIMEOUT and SANE_NET_TIMEOUT, don't we? RR> The backends should know precisely how long a response takes, RR> especially to return to the user if the scanner got "stuck". RR> If one device requires it's own timeouts then go fix the backend to set it. Well, I don't feel myself competent enough to suggest specific timeouts for a few scanner models. My particular unit works much better after I change libusb_timeout=120*1000. I have no idea if this is going to help others. I'll be completely satisfied if someone provides a general solution which just works. Thanks -L
