# Re: Porting SANE backends

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:49:02 +0100

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Svend Daugaard Pedersen wrote:

> - don't use 'alloca()'
> this routine is not an ANSI routine and it is difficult
> (in many cases impossible) to implement in a C system not
> having it.
>

Thats no problem, changed it in the umax backend.

> - don't use 'fork()' and related routines
> if you feel it is necessary, do it in a way that makes it
> easy to change the code (snapscan.c is a good example) or
> better: make this part of the code conditional.
>

What is the problem with fork. The amiga has a multi-tasking system, soI don`t
understand the problem.

Bye
Oliver

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