RFC 1179 lpr issue blocks queue (and patch for 1.1.23)

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Dec 12 09:18:10 PST 2005


Damien Wiles wrote:
> If I get time (unlikely) I will try again with 1.2. However here's
> what I know.
> 
> The previously supplied diff seems to work fine for backends/lpd
> 1.1.23-r1 on gentoo which I guess is the same as 1.1.23 main. Apple
> is still using 1.1.* afaik. Would a unified diff for 1.2 yield an
> apple update for 1.1?, somehow I doubt it.

Posting here will not yield an update for Apple's CUPS, either... ;)

> When I tried 1.2 (r4865) last week lpd seemed broken (as mentioned in
> my first post). All jobs came through as '.15username' instead of
> 'username'. this weeks 1.2 (r4876) looks similarly broken, i.e.
> "H.31%s\n" is wrong, so it puts H.31 before the whole of whatever is
> in s, instead of H and the first 31 characters of s (H%.31s), all
> this section is broken the same way.

OK, thanks, will fix this for the next snapshot...

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