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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is anyone executing Cnews on microport 2.4 ?
Message-ID: <1989Jul12.210803.8748@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1884@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <14@pfm.UUCP> <773@micropen> <1989Jul12.060459.28245@intacc.uucp>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 21:08:03 GMT

In article <1989Jul12.060459.28245@intacc.uucp> mann@intacc.UUCP (Jeff Mann) writes:
>David  is  correct  to  point out that the "infamous" indode problem can
>happen with Microport.  I think a preventative fix for this would be  to
>add a line:
>
>	> $NEWSARTS/tmp$$; rm $NEWSARTS/tmp$$
>
>to  newsrun,  just before the test for request to stop in the main loop,
>for example.  This will stop the creation of thousands of files  without
>a  deletion  of a file; which I believe is the condition that causes the
>missing inodes.  Comments?

I would be quite interested to know whether this does in fact solve the
problem; I'm a little sensitive to overhead in newsrun, but I could at
least say something about it in a comment.

I considered having spacefor try to check for inodes as well as disk
blocks, in fact, but if you thought finding the number of disk blocks
free was system-dependent, well, inodes are worse...

>Also  of  interest to Microport users: batch/viauux calls uux with a -gd
>option, not recognised by uport.  Just take it  out.   Related  is  that
>conf/queuelen,  either  version,  does  not work.  I used the 'old uucp'
>version, and removed the part about changing directories...

My stars, that's an ancient uucp!
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