Re: PROBLEM FOUND (sort of): Re: lpr: order of print requests

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 02), Chris Dillon said:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> > Hmm, I've never seen such a strange behaviour. Lpd should do FIFO.
> > Could you give some more infos about your environment (os release,
> > input filter program, printer type)?

Aha.  Yes, it _does_ do FIFO, but if you look at the source, the queue
sorting routine simply sorts on stat(mtime) of the queue file, so jobs
submitted in the same second will sort randomly.  A quick fix would be
to sleep for 1 second between "lpr" calls.

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        Dan Nelson
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