-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Martin Pool wrote:
> The Samba 3.0 roadmap mentions this as a wishlist item for 3.x. I'm > interested in looking at it. > > Has anybody else already worked on it? JF started on it, but do to some bugs it got sidetracked after killing the build farm machines. > It seemed like it would involve a separate smbd process repeatedly > parsing the output of lpq and feeding it into a database, rather than > this being done on-demand from a regular smbd child. I suppose when > some change is noticed it will have to send a message to prod other > smbds. or the child smbd can always assume that it is up to date (of course locking during an update makes sure that a smbd doesn't get a half done queue listing). > It might be good for there to also be a way for the spooler to notify > Samba when something has happened, so as to avoid polling. CUPS might support this. I dunno. or it could be added to lpd of course. > This seems like it might help print server efficiency with many jobs > or printers. > > Am I on the right track? Sounds good to me. cheers, jerry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+SdxZIR7qMdg1EfYRAhMYAJ0bgS7KbaXJcxTNx3wPyq5OeMo0xgCfc736 xLx6vrFt2DFIi9C0jCUD9jc= =jb0t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----