Passing extra information from environment to backend?

[Michael Sweet]

Erik Forsberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there some way to pass information from the environment of the user
> submitting a print job (via 'lp', 'lpr' or some program using libcups,
> for example KDE's or Gnome's printer systems), to the backend?

No, you can't do that, but you can pass options that can be seen by
the backend.

You'll likely have to modify libcups to get it to pass the option
automatically - look in cups/util.c to modify the cupsPrintFiles2
function (just add another string attribute in the IPP_TAG_JOB
group...)

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