[plug] CUPS - race condition duplicating print requests?

Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 18 09:03:09 WST 2003


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:55:34AM +0800, Garry wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:42:24 +0800
> Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody else seen a race condition on an SMP machine where CUPS
> > duplicates (sometimes many times) the same print request?

> Only when the mouse finger is under the influence of the DTs....
> 
> 8^)==

In this case, the requests have been repeated up to a dozen times
ofer several seconds, with up to 4 per second. The source of the
request is an application that takes significantly-greater time to
generate the output.

Finger-fault was the first thing I suspected! :-)

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