Concurrent IPP transfers and other CUPS operations

[Helge Blischke]

Sebastian James wrote:

> I was wondering if an IPP transfer of data onto a CUPS server will block
> other CUPS operations while it is in progress?
> 
> Suppose you had a slow IPP transfer from a remote site, and another
> transfer was ready to start (perhaps to a different queue) - will the
> second transfer have to wait for the first to finish?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Seb James

No, for every job, the scheduler spawns a process group of its own
which contains all the needed filters and the backend.

Helge