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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
-
- In article <1js17fINNenp@ftp.UU.NET> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
- > I'd like to follow the implied RFC model a bit closer and define a
- >protocol. You know, like ``first you open the file, then read or write
- >for a while, then close''.
-
- Well, gee, once you look at it that way, the spooler interface ought to
- be something like:
- cp print_me /dev/spool
- where the /dev/spool filesystem takes care of assigning unique queue names,
- etc. and for example
- ls /dev/spool/status | grep "^$MY_UID"
- would show how your jobs are doing.
- Of course that's a bit simplistic, but why should we even THINK about
- introducing a new, different protocol for some set of open/read/write/close
- actions when we already have a general one? (Or should have.)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 39
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