Re: [hylafax-devel] Outstanding work for 4.1beta3

[Robert Colquhoun <rjc@trump.net.au>]

At 08:46 PM 3/29/00 +0100, Phil Watkinson wrote:
>Robert <rjc@trump.net.au> wrote to Darren <darren@dazza.org>
> > There  are a few of options i can think of:
> >
> > 1) Leave patch as is, will require people to upgrade to 3.5.X, this will
> > require the least amount of work.
> >
> > 2) Wrapper run length quantities and add some logic to configure to detect
> > different versions of the tiff library.
> >
> > 3) Try and separate hylafax and libtiff a little better so that hylafax is
> > not dependent on internal libtiff routines, by far most work but probably
> > best result.
> >
>
>I vote for (1) - are we voting? - libtiff 3.5.x is not going to go away
>and there could be a patch to 'downgrade' HylaFAX back to libtiff 3.4
>for those platforms where libtiff 3.5 is not available.

I don't think i personally will have enough time to work on 3), unless 
someone else steps in it will probably
end up being option 1).


>If I have been paying attention, list of outstanding matters for the
>release of v4.1beta3 is as follows :
>
>1. Decision on libtiff fix
>2. Change to configure to check for correct libtiff library

If 3.5 the libtiff library should probably be >= 3.5.5, apparently there 
was a nasty bug in the earlier 3.5 releases that would crash the 
application when presented with a corrupt tiff image to process.


>3. Sun OS patches - munmap.patch, RAND_MAX.patch and mkdepend.patch
>       by Nico Kadel-Garcia and James Lee

What does the mkdepend patch do again?

>4. Decision on removing '/bin/stty' warning messages on Linux boxes

Is there a way to only remove/replace it for linux only?

>5. seqf file fix to hfaxd/HylaFAXServer.c++

done.

>6. Tim said don't forget to update functions ModemServer:beginSession
>    (in faxd/ModemServer.c++) and FaxServer:getRecvFile (in faxd/
>    FaxRecv.c++)

on todo list...

>7. Dmitry's RTN (and other) fixes we heard about tonight.
>8. The SuSE patch to discard ip-sourced packets

on todo list...

>9. A fix to the manpage script to prevent a gaping security hole.

If someone else wants to do this one, all you need to do is strip all the 
special characters out of the QUERYSTRING in the cgi script.

- Robert