lots of /tmp/4b* files

Karl Rossing karlr at barobinson.com
Thu May 27 14:28:00 PDT 2010


Johannes,

I posted to the acroread forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/648054

Let hope Adobes fixes it.

Karl

>
> Hello,
>
> On May 25 11:39 Karl Rossing wrote (shortened):
> >
> >> More than likely an application or toolkit is not removing PPD files =
> >> when they are done with them. What do the files look like?
> >>
> >
> > head /tmp/4bfc1515b2561
> > *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
> ....
> >
> > Maybe it's acroread
>
> FYI,
> see
> http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547292#c5
> "Printing via Adobe Reader leaves three or more same PPD files
>   in /tmp/ for every print job."
>
> But other applications (e.g. Mozilla Firefox) were also known
> to call cupsGetPPD() without calling a matching unlink()...
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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