faxrunqd still busted on SUNOS

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Hi,

Ulrich Pfeifer wrote:
> Faxrunqd has on sunos the bug that it uses the $? magic variable and a
> signal handler together. In this case you get random values for $?.
> This test script
[..]

faxrunqd as contained in the mgetty 1.0 and 1.1 distributions is
*obsolete*. It has bugs, it is very complicated without the need to be,
and doesn't work on various platforms.

I am currently busy doing a complete rewrite from scratch (I'm lucky, I
work for a company that *pays* me to do this :-) ) and I'll release it
when I'm finished.

Right now, queue walking, process creation and "children harvesting" works
as expected, but job handling and tty distribution is still quite dumb.

gert
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