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<H1>Re: ( XSane parameters or buffer bug</H1>
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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Nick Lamb (<A HREF="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk?Subject=Re:%20(%20XSane%20parameters%20or%20buffer%20bug&In-Reply-To=&lt;20010511035903.C32668@ecs.soton.ac.uk&gt;"><EM>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</EM></A>)<BR>
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:09:44PM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote:
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<EM>&gt; Although it is not nice that xsane produces a segfault it
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<EM>&gt; makes sense to create the gamma table before sane_start is
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<EM>&gt; called. The creation of the gamma tables can take some time
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<EM>&gt; and it is not good to interrupt the scanning for this
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<EM>&gt; what can happen on slow computers.
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<P>Perhaps you could simply check if the value has changed when
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re-reading the parameters and only generate a new gamma table
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in that case? Defensive programming is in order because a
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frontend will be used with many backends, perhaps ones we will
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never hear of.
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<P>Nick.
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