Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: URGENT problem with updatemin
Message-ID: <1989Aug25.165727.5229@vicom.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 16:57:27 GMT
References: <1989Aug24.191942.5491@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA
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In article <1989Aug24.191942.5491@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
=There is (sigh) a bug in the "updatemin" program that came out with the
=C News patch two days ago.  It fails to unlink its temporary from active,
=which is big trouble when the *next* invocation of it re-creates the
=temporary.  I was only running it once in regression test, in a messy
=directory, so I missed this.  My apologies.  There will be a patch,
=probably today, to fix this.

This makes patch # 5 (I think; hard to tell without numbering:-)).  So much
for "not enough patches to worry about numbering."

Henry, why don't you consider adding patch numbering to your current scheme?
It would make the rest of us happy, show that you have the capacity for
change, and still allow you to experiment with date-based numbering.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com