SUMMARY (where are lpr's locks?)

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Hi,
        I originally asked a question along these lines:
                Sometimes I've had to kill lpd because the printer has
                fouled up and lpd/lpr seems unresponsive. On
                restarting sometimes, lpr and then lpq gives the
                message 'waiting for lock on /dev/ttyxx'. How do I get
                rid of this bogus lock?

The answer in summary, is that is not a file based lock at all,
but a fcntl/flock/lockf sort of thing. (I checked this using
trace(1) but not forget which of the three it was. flock I think)

Killing lpd and restarting does not get rid of the lock.

The only way to get rid of it seems to be to reboot. :-)

Thanks for your replies,
        -Matt Hannigan

PS. I'm using SunOS 4.1.3

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