Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:24:40 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: rone@ennui.org (roger n. tospott), freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two minor lpr gripes Message-ID: <p05210617bb8fd07a9f06@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030918174819.1499B26C34@boredom.ennui.org> References: <20030918174819.1499B26C34@boredom.ennui.org>
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At 10:47 AM -0700 9/18/03, roger n. tospott wrote: >/usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/common_source/lp.local.h currently has > > #define DEFMX 1000 > >Given the size of files nowadays, shouldn't this be a >little larger? This was recently changed to 0 in current, but not in stable. (zero meaning "no limit"). It probably makes sense to pick *some* limit instead of "infinity", but I couldn't come up with a good reason for any specific value, so we just went with zero (aka "infinity"). >Also, maybe it's just me, but given this (from man printcap): > > Name Type Default Description > mx num 1000 maximum file size (in BUFSIZ > blocks), zero = unlimited > >it's not obvious to me that "Type num" means that, if i wanted >an unlimited maximum file size, the printcap entry should be >"mx#0", rather than "mx=0". Perhaps more expressive examples >could be helpful in /usr/src/etc/printcap. Heh. It's obvious to people who have done a lot with printcap or termcap, but it's true that people often miss that. I thought I had added some logic to chkprintcap for that (so you'd at least see a warning message when lpd starts up). Perhaps I only did that in my own versions, and never committed it to freebsd. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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