Re: The son of "lpr-patch reloaded"

[Brian Ginsbach <ginsbach%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:54:39PM +0000, Dennis den Brok wrote:
> Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> schrieb:
> > Why strcmp(foo, " ")?
> >
> 
> Pooh, that's from OpenBSD. Can this case actually occur anyway? I
> didn't really think about it as it seems at most superfluous. OTOH,
> if jobname == " " actually occurs, foomatic-rip might interpret the 
> first word from stdin as job title or option string and thus barf 
> on the postscript data which follows?
> 

It doesn't look like it can happen via our lpr but I'm not sure
about remote printing.  It looks like a J card w/o a jobname causes
lpd to internallly set the jobname to " ".  This is probably why
the check is in there.  (See line 420-427 lpd/printjob.c in current.)