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>> Now that Rilley said he'd like to work on simplified lpd i guess there
>> is nothing else to do about printing tools. I have added some ioctl()
>> support to lp driver and i hope to finish it this week along with some
>> sort of lpcontrol program. I'll send you the modified lp.c when it is
>> completed, OK ??
>
>Okay. I would like to see a printing system that can work without a permanent
>lpd process. The task table under ELKS is small and I can see that many
>people who want to print only rarely might not want the daemon there all
>the time.
We could probably do this by stealing functionality off inetd (when we get
one). If lpr were to open a socket connection to localhost and blast the file
down, then inetd would spawn off the lpd-look-alike whenever it was needed. So
we wouldn't have an extra process running all the time.
...actually, now I come to think about it, isn't that what lpr and lpd do
anyway? So why does my big-Linux box have an lpd running all the time?
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