[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #1928: printers.conf race condition? settings lost!

Valentijn Sessink v.sessink at openoffice.nl
Tue Aug 22 05:35:52 PDT 2006


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Hi,

At Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:16:05AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> The scheduler (cupsd) itself backs the printers.conf file up (rename to
> printers.conf.O), creates printers.conf, and renames the backup to
> printers.conf if it is unable to create the new printers.conf file.

Which means, that if printers.conf is renamed, after that cupsd is stopped
and restarted? Does cups create a new printers.conf or does it re-rename the
printers.conf.O file?

(As cupsd wasn't running on the system involved, this could be what
happened).

Best regards,

Valentijn
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