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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:08:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] printers.conf frequently gets truncated
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On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 23:00 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> The problem with fsync() is that it is a blocking API. Blocking cupsd
> (single-threaded daemon process) is *not* a good idea.

Aren't changes to printers.conf deferred anyway, to allow changes to be
batched up? So it wouldn't be an fsync call every time the values
change, but every time those values are written back -- which is much
less often on a busy system.

Tim.
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