Re: SANE Net backend suggestion...
Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:21:50 +0800
[Brian Macy]
> A bit of a thought that I've been interested in for quite some
> time... what do you all think of having the net backend writing the
> data during a scan to a file. At the same time a thread (or whatever
> is appropriate) writes the file out the data socket. That way if you
> have a slow network connection (which it can easily be slower than a
> SCSI scanner) your scanner doesn't play the two steps forward, one
> step back game.
Sounds like a good idea, as long as you make sure the net backend
start writing to the client as soon as there is some data available.
Do you have a demonstration patch?
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