On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:05:25AM -0600, Brad Pepers wrote:
> With the latest Linux kernels (using 2.4.10 right now), I can't seem to find
> a way to make a write fail if there is no parallel port device. For example
> I have a Epson TM-T88 printer on the parallel port and I send a status
> request to it every few seconds. If the printer gets turned off I want the
> write to just fail immediately. In the past I could use "tunelp -a on" to
> get this behaviour but it doesn't seem to work anymore.
>
> Anything I can do to help get this working again?
'tunelp -a on' ought to still work. I am quite busy with other things
still at the moment and so don't have time to look at it just now. Do
you think you could take a look to see how lp_open is handling the
ABORT flag differently?
> PS: once I get past this problem with writes, I will need to see if I can
> also make sure reads work properly. What I need is non-blocking behaviour.
> I will request a read for a few bytes but if there aren't enough available
> (or none), I want it to just return back that it read 0 is how ever many
> bytes were available. Does the printer driver handle the non-blocked flag
> properly?
No, but it shouldn't be hard for someone (who has the hardware to test
it with) to fix that.
Tim.
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