Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 19:58:31 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing lpd's model of operation slightly... Message-ID: <199712040358.TAA08901@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <199712031818.NAA13289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 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
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