[cups.general] cups patch to use STDIN instead of (stdin) for job name: still needed?

[Michael Sweet]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> ...
> Do you know whether such a patch would still be needed and useful for
> integration upstream?


We won't accept this for upstream CUPS, and IMHO the patch is the  
wrong approach - if Samba/Windows can't handle a job name with "(" or  
")", it should filter those characters out, much like the LPD backend  
filters out UTF-8 characters to work around limitations in many  
printers.

"(stdin)" has a long history for both lpr and lp, and it is one of the  
backwards-compatibility things we use in CUPS for legacy systems.

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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer

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