[PATCH] cupsys: options parsing and job-sheet attribute to cups-lpd

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Nov 9 09:05:03 PST 2004


David Decotigny wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It semms that the "job-sheets" argument that can be passed to cups-lpd 
> by inetd is not correctly supported. Actually, I think there is both 1/ 
> a (critical IMHO) problem with cupsAddOption() which does not realloc 
> correctly the "options" array (it realloc'ed one of the items in the 
> array...), and 2/ a problem with a cups-lpd function which messed up 
> with 2 options array.
> 
> Attached is the patch against current cupsys of debian/testing. Now, 
> when I pass -o job-sheets=titi,toto to cups-lpd in inetd, the banners 
> are printed correctly.
> 
> BTW: it seems that job-sheets-default is not available to the 
> cups-lpd... is it because the IPP server it interacts with is cups 
> version 1.1.17 (redhat 9) ? Or is it because this attribute has to be 
> defined in a place deifferent than /etc/cups/printers.conf (variable 
> JobSheets) ? Where ?

Probably the best thing to do is test with the current release of
CUPS (1.1.22) and not a two-year-old version (1.1.17).  If the
problem persists, report it using the form at:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

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