[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 120676] Concurrent --convert-to pdf sessions fail silently

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120676

--- Comment #2 from Neil Youngman <neil.youngman at wirefast.com> ---
Saying that a failure to perform a requested function is not a bug seems to be
taking "it's a feature not a bug" jokes a little too far. 

It seems to be an unintended consequence of other design decisions and, at the
very least, it's a violation of the principle of least surprise. 

As someone who is not familiar with the architecture of LibreOffice, it's not
obvious that if I request a standalone conversion that it would/should connect
to a prior instance and ask that to perform the operation. Similarly I would
not necessarily expect such a job to perform operations for other instances and
continue running until there are no more client instances expecting it to run
jobs for them.

As a practical solution for my immediate needs I believe the workaround I have
will allow me to run independent jobs in parallel. 

Conceptually it seems to me that the headless option needs to be split into 2
different options, a headless server and a standalone one-shot operation.

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