Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: relaynews doesn't update active file
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.221654.26595@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct6.004103.2076@melb.bull.oz.au>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 90 22:16:54 GMT

In article <1990Oct6.004103.2076@melb.bull.oz.au> sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J Gerraty) writes:
>Relaynews appears not to be updating the active file.  The
>history file does get updated and the logs appear normal.

This gets the nod, I think, for "weirdest problem yet".

One thought does come to mind...  Modern active files exceed 32KB.
The "big" variant of the active-file code tries to rewrite the whole
file in one gulp (one fwrite(), to be precise).  If you specified a
large address space, but your fwrite() takes signed 16-bit size
parameters, this could result in a failure.  I would expect a complaint
about this, but maybe something else is wrong too...
-- 
Imagine life with OS/360 the standard  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
operating system.  Now think about X.  |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry