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From: ken@sdd.hp.com (Ken Stone)
Subject: Re: I really don't think this is a good idea
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.174822.20747@sdd.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
References: <1990Jul13.033611.2849@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 17:48:22 GMT

In article <1990Jul13.033611.2849@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes:
>NNTP 1.5.9, in spawn.c, tries to open a temporary file in
>/usr/spool/news/.tmp. Bad move.
>
>I don't run B news. (Never had it, never will.) I don't have a
>/usr/spool/news/.tmp. Assuming the universal availability of it as a
>temporary area is a bad idea. As is assuming the use of
>/usr/spool/news as the news spool area.

Patch 9 seems to full of little goodies ... I find the following:

    * Hardcoding of /usr/spool/news (really bad idea ... in post.c and spawn.c)
    * Use of /usr/spool/news/.tmp and /usr/spool/news/.bad (not in Cnews)
    * Trashing the environment if SETPROCTITLE is defined.  Really bothers
      Cnews's inews since its a shell script.

  -- Ken