[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: NMS-formmail and mod_perl

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

From: Colin Kuskie <ck...@st...>
Date: 3/26/02 7:26:55 AM

> Greetings!
>
> I installed your NMS formmail and found that it doesn't 
> work well with mod_perl.  It's mainly due to the use of 
> global variables inside subroutines.  Would you be 
> interested in a patch that would fix the problem?
>
> Since none of the subroutines are called more than once, 
> I'm planning on inlining all the subroutines and then 
> adding comments to replace the functionality of the 
> subroutines for code cleanliness.  I could do it the 
> other way, passing everything on the stack, but it would
> be a lot more work.
>
> We've also added an internal buffer to make it work well 
> with filtering programs.

Colin,

Thanks for your mail. I've forwarded it to the nms developers
list. There are people there who will be able to give you a more
intelligent answer on this than I would :)

Dave...

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