[cups.general] print jobs on empty files

[Michael Sweet]

gmail wrote:
> # cat emptyfile | lp 
> lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. 
> 
> # ls -l /var/spool/cups/tmp 
> total 0 
> -rw-------  1 root root 0 Mar  8 10:28 45efd74491a30 
> 
> # ls -l /var/tmp 
> total 0 
> 
> # su testuser
> 
> # cat emptyfile | lp 
> lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. 
> 
> # ls -l /var/tmp 
> total 0 
> -rw-------  1 frank4 testomg2 0 Mar  8 10:30 45efd79cd2725 
> 
> # ls -l /var/spool/cups/tmp 
> total 0 
> -rw-------  1 root root 0 Mar  8 10:28 45efd74491a30 
> 
> Question why does cups create print jobs for empty files ?

It's not, the lp program is creating a temporary file but not removing
it on that error.  This appears to be fixed in the current CUPS
releases...

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