[cups.bugs] Lots of backend processes after stopping cupsd?

[Michael Sweet]

We should be sending SIGKILL to the backends on shutdown - which backends are sticking around?

On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Andrea Sen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> if I restart my server, while there is still running a backend process (if a job could not be printed for some reasons), it seems as if this process is started over and over again.
> This happens also, if I just stop cupsd, then there are 1000 or more processes belonging to cups. Mainly backend processes, but also some cupsd processes. Most of them are marked as defunct.
> 
> Is this the correct behavior? Shutting down the server takes some time, I think because all the processes have to be stopped?
> 
> I use Ubuntu 9.04, but compiled cups-1.4.4 on my own. Printing and everything else works well...
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrea Sen
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair