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

[Andrea Sen]

Hello,

as far as I didn't get any response, I'd like to know, if this bug will 
be solved in the next release (or later)?

Thanks a lot,
Andrea Sen

Andrea Sen wrote:
> It happens with lpd, usb and socket backend, but I didn't try the other 
> ones.
>
> For me it seems as if the backend is shutdown correctly, but the same 
> job is restarted immediately, shutdown again and so on.
>
>
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>   
>> 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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