Some small suggestions... To mix mgetty with HylaFAX

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Hi,

Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:
> >If you send me a *clean* (and *portable*) patch that will work everywhere,
> >I may integrate it. Otherwise, the chances are very small - I have many
> >things to do that I find far more important. After all, mgetty can do all
> >the things for incoming calls that Hylafax can do...
> 
> That's correct, for _incoming_ calls. Nevertheless, I wouldn't
> consider a fax spooling system which does permission checks
> inside of shell scripts appropriate for use on a multi-user
> machine.

Hey, I *wrote* "for incoming calls" because I know that. The fax spooling
system definitely needs major rework concerning real security and network
spooling. Moderately high on my TODO list.

> BTW, I've got some code for an elementary fax-queuing backend
> in C here, if anyone is interested... ;-)

Hummm, if it integrates cleanly and uses the same queue format, yes.

gert
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