lpmove

[Michael Sweet]

John A. Murdie wrote:
> ...

> Can someone confirm that a 'Processing' job can't successfully be
> moved - Helge, Mike? The web interface 'Hold job' button only appears
> when a job is not 'Processing', however. (Moving a held job doesn't
> release it to the new printer, of course.)

Correct, you can't (currently) move a job that is currently printing.

> ...
> of the job data - one might expect that the scheduler would send the
> backend a SIGKILL and that the job would be restarted on the new
> printer. (The CUPS book predates lpmove(1) and web-interface 'Move
> job' button, of course, so no discussion there.) Is this what is
> meant to happen (eventually?), or not?
 > ...

That should be what happens, but I think we don't allow a move-job
operation to follow the spirit of the IPP spec.

If you can put together a quick test "recipe" of the current
behavior and what you'd expect, go ahead and file a bug report and
we'll see about fixing (or at least documenting :) things...

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