[cups.general] Passing extra information fromenvironmenttobackend?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Oct 19 04:43 Kurt Pfeifle wrote (shortened):
>> Erik Forsberg wrote:
>>> Interesting, but will not solve the problem - I might have explained
>>> badly, but as the same user may have several sessions, on the same
>>> machine, and I want to distingush between sessions in my backend,
>> BTW, what do you mean with *MY* backend?
>>
>> If it is a custom backend, over whose code you have full control, you
>> can make it read a commandline option that is passed via the print
>> command. Say "my_session_id=username at session_number".
> 
> As far as I understand it this cannot work because
> he is looking for a way that the same user is logged in
> several times at the same time and therefore any central
> place where an option setting is stored cannot work
> to distingush the sessions of this one user.

OK, I didn't take that into account. Any new session would
overwrite the setting of the previous one, right.

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