Re: Turning the printer on and off automatically

🕙︎ - 2021-10-20

Rainer Dorsch writes:

I am wondering though if your solution has a race condition:

You're absolutely right, it does.

In this case I prefer to skip the complexity associated with trying to mitigate the tiny race condition.

Some other computer could also try to use the printer, which wouldn't even make the printer turn on - so this solution isn't comprehensive, but for my use it is sufficient.

Thanks for your comment, I'm happy my post was useful!

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