[Xprint] from inetd, how?

[Ian Zimmerman]

Ian> But I only need to print quite rarely; in fact I don't even have a
Ian> dead tree printer, all I want to do is occassionally "print to
Ian> file", upload the output to my work machine and print it there the
Ian> next day.  So running Xprint all the time seems quite wasteful,
Ian> especially because it appears to be just a hacked copy of the
Ian> regular X server,

Roland> Erm... Xprt isn't a "hack". Xprint is a X Consortium standard
Roland> (see xc/doc/specs/XPRINT/) and provides a fully-featured print
Roland> API for X11 applications.  

Yes, I know.  Is there a contradiction?  My impression of a hack
pertains to the existing specific implementation.

Roland> Why do you think it's a "hack" ?!

Because of the manpage.  The manpage is copied from the X server.
Am I wrong?

Ian> the worst hog among daemons.

Roland> Xprt can help _saving_ memory since all resource-intensive stuff
Roland> (fonts, images, OpenGL textures etc.) isn't handled at the
Roland> application side. The resource usage which would happen within
Roland> the application is MOVED to the Xprint server side. You do NOT
Roland> waste resources with that, you only MOVE it. And if multiple
Roland> applications or multiple users (think about large multiuser
Roland> systems) are using Xprt then even memory gets saved. LOTS of
Roland> memory (for the same reason things like "xfs" (X11 font server)
Roland> were invented...).  BTW: The same argumentation applies to
Roland> "cupsd" or "lpd", they hog memory, too.

Have you read my whole post?