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Date:      Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:40:47 +0200
From:      Jan-Espen Pettersen <sigsegv@radiotube.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"
Message-ID:  <44A6A58F.7090602@radiotube.org>
In-Reply-To: <44A6A3D5.9020607@radiotube.org>
References:  <200606301737.32015.rainer.heesen@gmx.de> <44A6A3D5.9020607@radiotube.org>

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> The problem is that read operations on usb printers might just
> block/hang with no data from the printer (?). ulpt doesn't have
> non-blocking I/O, so I've made a patch that simply times out read
> operations, and disables further reads if it detects a blocking/stall
> condition. It is possible that this breaks the back-channel, as I'm
> unsure if we can expect a printer to send inbound data before we
> actually write anything out?
>
> It looks like there are similar problems with other backends? I've only=

> looked at the usb backend yet.
>
>  =20
Sorry, the attachment got cleared by mailman.
http://www.radiotube.org/patch-backend_usb-unix.c

Put it into /usr/ports/print/cups-base/files if you would like to test it=
=2E




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