[hpoj-devel] tonight's code changes

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Hi,

Here's a rundown of the major code changes tonight (it's still night for me,
anyway:-):

1. ptal-mlcd and ptal-printd should now work properly from a hotplug script,
despite the lack of stdin/stdout/stderr file descriptors.

2. ptal-mlcd and ptal-printd now log to syslog in addition to standard output
or standard error, respectively.

3. ptal-printd should be more immune to ptal-mlcd hiccups (such as device
unplugs); previously it could exit due to a "broken pipe" signal.

4. ptal-mlcd will now refuse to start if another instance of ptal-mlcd is
already running using the same PTAL device name (socket).

5. The configure script should now detect QT as installed on Debian systems
(/usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /usr/include/qt).

Allen, #1 through #4 apply especially to you since you use hotplug scripts.
Would you please verify for me that #1 is fixed properly, without having to
use the earlier "</dev/null" workaround?

Obi-Wan, since you reported problem #5 above, would you please verify that
the new configure script properly detects QT on your system, after removing
your earlier tree-of-symlinks workaround?

Of course, even though I asked specific people to verify some of the above
changes, I always welcome breakage reports from anybody.  :-)

David