[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [9]: RFR JDK-8058316, , lookupDefaultPrintService returns null on Solaris 11

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Fri Mar 4 19:29:52 UTC 2016


Approved.

-phil.

On 03/04/2016 02:47 AM, prasanta sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Please find the modified webrev
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8058316/webrev.01/
>
> Regards
> Prasanta
> On 3/4/2016 3:21 AM, Phil Race wrote:
>> I think there is a small memory leak with this code :
>> https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.0/api-cups.html#cupsGetDests 
>>
>>
>> "Use the cupsFreeDests function to free the destination list"
>>
>> Also I am not sure if you are using cupsGetDest as intended :-
>>
>>  202     cups_dest_t *dest = j2d_cupsGetDest(NULL, NULL, num_dests, 
>> dests);
>>  203     if (dest != NULL) {
>>  204         for (i = 0; i < num_dests; i++) {
>>  205             if (dest[i].is_default) {
>>  206                 defaultPrinter = dest[i].name;
>>  207                 break;
>>  208             }
>>  209         }
>>  210     }
>>
>>
>> I don't think you are expected to iterate over the result here.
>> I think it is already the pointer to the default. In other words
>> the function will already have done what your for loop is doing.
>> If there is no default you will iterate off the end ..
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>> On 03/03/2016 02:39 AM, prasanta sadhukhan wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058316
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8058316/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> The issue was on some Solaris 11 hosts lookupDefaultPrintService() 
>>> returns null while lpstat -d reports an ipp printer.
>>> The issue was found to exist in linux too since it uses CUPS.
>>>
>>> What was happening was that CUPSPrinter.java#getDefaultPrinter() 
>>> searches for server-defined default destination by connection to 
>>> CUPS server but
>>> if the user sets the default printer using "lpoptions -d 
>>> <printername>" command, server will not have any knowledge of this 
>>> settings and this user-set default printer (which is stored in 
>>> ~/.cups/lpoptions file) was not searched
>>> and getDefaultPrinter() returns null since it could not find any 
>>> server default printer.
>>>
>>> Fix is to call cupsGetDest API to search for a lpoptions-defined 
>>> default printer and if not set, then search for server-defined 
>>> destination.
>>>
>>> I could not provide a regression testcase for this as it involves 
>>> setting default printer using lpoptions command.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Prasanta
>>>
>>
>




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