Sequence number in control-file name ?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Aug 26 07:09:45 PDT 2004


jan at bronee.net wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> In /var/spool/cups we observe the control files : cXXXXX
> 
> Now what happens when the job-number reaches 99999 ?

The next job will be 100000, and that is supported by the current
code.

We haven't changed the default number of digits since it would break
backwards-compatibility with old job history data.  We might put
migration code into 1.2 (probably to 10 digits), but we'll see.

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