"background updates of print queues via a dedicated process"
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Wed Feb 12 13:25:13 GMT 2003
Tim Potter wrote:
> ...
> My idea which I've probably told a couple of you is to use kernel
> dnotify stuff to work out when jobs are spooled or removed. So a
> daemon would get a signal when a spool file is created and add that
> to printing.tdb. When the file completes spooling lpd deletes it and
> the daemon gets another signal saying that file has deleted.
> ...
However, this is highly spooler specific and depends on a publicly
accessible spool directory (something that any self-respecting
spooler does not do these days to avoid common security issues...
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Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com
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