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[hylafax-devel] Re: Security patches for hylafax-v4.0pl2



John Holland wrote:
> 
> > > IMHO it is better to spend some time learning how to this in C++
> > > than start right away fixing this with acient C-style
> > > programming.
> >
> >Personally I already know how to work with STL strings, containers,
> >iterators,  and iostreams :-) But I am not going to rewrite string handling

AFAIK there is no STL no Templates (but there are some marco's)
and no Execption Handling (but there are some 'goto's' used to do
the same) in the hylafax source tree. With a basic understanding
of C++ one should be able to read and understand most parts of
the source.

> >in Hylafax (at least right now), because its protocol part still requires
> >some amount of work, and it is much more interesting for me :-)

Yes it does. 
 
> I be happy to start converting the fx* and string calls to STL, where
> feasible.  It would be a good opportunity to get familiar with the code.
> 
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