[cups.general] Passing extra information from environmenttobackend?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 19 11:14 Michael R Sweet wrote (shortened):
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > 
> > What about a completely generic environment variable, which CUPS does
> > not at all use, but just faithfully passes down its filtering chain
> > through to the backend?
> 
> How is that any different?

An environment variable can be set different for each process,
it keeps its value as long as the process runs, and it can be
automatically inherited by child processes.

In contrast a "-o foo=bar" option setting must be either specified
again and again for each job submission or it is stored for all
processes of a user in a file in his home directory.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
-- 
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex