Re: lpr problems in 2.0->2.1?

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Sun, 08 Feb 1998 21:35:49 +0000


>And I changed my lpr filter recently, adding a program that calls
>tcdrain(1); apparently that's not legal on parallel port devices, so

No, it's not; the lp driver isn't buffered in the kernel, so when write()
returns you know that all the data has gone out. This means that draining the
buffer is never a meaningful thing to do.

(That's not to say that adding buffering might not be a good idea at some
point, though...)

p.

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