bug in viewprt?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

I believe I've discovered a design deficiency in viewprt.

Apparently, in certain circumstances, filepro creates -p output files
which are not readable by the general public.  For some reason, while
the less command spawned by viewprt can read them (it apparently
inherits viewprt's EUID), lp pukes because it cannot (a permission
error).  I believe this is because it's the lp *unspooler* program,
which runs as user lp, that tries to open said file.  I saw two
possible solutions: chmod the temp file inside viewprt, or modify

lp -n $print $dir/$file

into

cat $dir/$file | lp -n $print

I chose the latter for security reasons, though it does make the output
of lpstat... well, no, on SCO it won't at least.

In any event, if no one contends this isn't a bug, I'm going to sumbit
it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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