Shlomi Levi - 2003-06-29

We are 2 CS students, and we are doing our final project: a monitoring system, as a self stabilizing method.

just in case:
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~lshl/project/project.html

We have chosen the lpd process as our monitored object. With success(hopefully) the lpd process of LPRng will be a self stabilized process :).

We need some help understanding the lpd mechanism, what does it do when a print job comes in (fork, i/o, etc.).

As for our minimal understanding so far, there is the main listener process, who forks a son, which also forks a son on an incoming job. What are they suppose to do, we still don't know.

We will appreciate any help,
Thanks,
Shlomi & Omri