From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 19:58:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14702 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:58:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14696 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:58:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08901; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:58:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199712040358.TAA08901@austin.polstra.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Changing lpd's model of operation slightly... In-Reply-To: <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 19:58:31 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman wrote: > 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. Sounds good to me. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth