printd: Temporary errors

• In several places we saw temp_error():

       symlink $head, $CONF{curfile} or
         temp_error("Couldn't symlink $head to $CONF{curfile}: $!", 30);

     unless (opendir SPOOLD, $dir) {
       temp_error("Couldn't read spool directory $dir: $!", 10);
     }

• In such cases, printd goes to sleep for a while and tries again

        sub temp_error {
          my ($message, $delay) = @_;
          ###XXX TODO log the $message
          warn "printd: $message\n";

          $NEXTOP = time() + $delay;
          next MAINLOOP;
        }

• I hadn't decided yet what to do about logging

• A notable feature here is Perl's awful non-local next

• next MAINLOOP here restarts the main loop back in the caller

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