Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:18:29 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Changing lpd's model of operation slightly... Message-ID: <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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As you should now be aware, I've been working on some fairly heavy-handed reorganization of the lpr/lpd suite. One of the things which I'm thinking of doing may be a bit controversial, and so I'd like to know what other people think. What I'm planning on doing (or rather, have done and am planning on committing once it's tested) is to separate the actual job-printing functionality out of lpd and into a separate program which lpd execv()s as necessary to start a printer. This allows that part of the program to not occupy any memory resources while it is not being used, but does increase the memory used on machines that host active printers. I think that this will make lpr/lpd a bit cleaner, and is a worthwhile change, despite the magnitude. (I have other, even more significant changes coming.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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