What's side channel

franz.pfoertsch.brose franz.pfoertsch at brose.com
Mon Aug 25 09:48:27 PDT 2008


> keens312 wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > By reading CUPS source code, I found some functions like cupsReadSideChannel ...
> >
> > What's the side channel for? I think backchannel is enough for printer to use.
>
> The side channel is for communicating with the backend - basically it
> allows you to query current parameters and capabilities.
>
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Hello Mike,

it very important to get information like this.

but is the cups.ddk-forum the right place to discuss something like this?

In my opininion this should be place into cups.development.

regards
Franz




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