[Bug 34309] lpd(8) does not garantie that controlfiles begin with "cf"

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34309

Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |Works As Intended
                 CC|                            |imp@FreeBSD.org
             Status|Open                        |Closed

--- Comment #5 from Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> ---
So the proposed patch is bad. It can't possibly work.
And even if we do fix it, it's not clear what the right thing to do is.
And we already make sure the first digit is 't' later in readjob(),
which is what we enforce in the rename routine.
And we already make certain assumptions about the format of the cf file
name that's passed over from the remote host, and if a remote host doesn't
conform to that, weird things are going to happen.
And HP-UX systems are vanishingly rare these days.
So given all these considerations, we should let it fail since we have no way
of knowing, generally, if a remote system is sending us mal-formed names what
the right thing to do. In this case, it's to hack the name to have 'f' as the
second character, but I don't think that's the right thing to do generically.
Plus we've had a lot of work on our lpd to make it more robust, and I think
doing a hack like this goes against that grain.

As such, I'm closing this bug as invalid.

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