From: utzoo!utcsrgv!thomson
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: dangerous bug in lprm
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.487
Posted: Thu Jul 29 11:58:58 1982
Received: Thu Jul 29 12:29:39 1982
References: sri-unix.2300

Re: sri-unix.2300
lprm truncates the spool file rather than just unlinking it so that the
printer daemon will immediately encounter an endfile and stop printing.
Unlinking the file, if the daemon already had it open, would not abort
printing.  If you adopt Steve Kramer's fix, you will be giving up this
ability.
						Brian Thomson
						decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!thomson