[cups.general] shell script as filter -> core dump

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Jun 18 04:48:53 PDT 2008


Willi Burmeister wrote:
> Hi Michael, hi Helge,
> 
> [...]
> 
> But I'm still wondering why a bad filter is able to stop cupsd. I think
> this is a bug.
> 

That might be due to the handling of SIGCHLD by the filter's
parent process (cupsd, I think). Maybe it is a peculiarity
of Solars (not uncommen such things).

Helge



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