Re: Backends using Kernel-Modules

From: Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Date: Wed Jun 28 2000 - 01:05:12 PDT

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Jaeger, Gerhard
> This is exactly what Petter suggested. But in the meantime I found
> another solution: A parallelport scanner-daemon. This daemon
> controls the scanner and communicates via pipes with the backend.
> It should run on other UNIX systems as well. ...

This is already used by some of the backends to support non-blocking
mode. The backend forks off a IO handler and communicates with this
using pipes. It should work just fine. :-)

Search for 'fork' in the source, to find backends using this
technique.

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