Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pnews failure, *not* in a moderated group
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.221548.10183@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov30.111026.66@panix.uucp> <1990Dec1.224630.11927@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec3.015827.19038@panix.uucp>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:15:48 GMT

In article <1990Dec3.015827.19038@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>As for Pnews failing, I saw it again today. I did some tests, and while I'm
>not too sure of anything yet, it seems to have something to do with suspending
>rn immediately after returning from Pnews. In other words, Pnews is no longer
>running, I suspend back to a shell, and the article vanishes. Any ideas what
>this could mean?

It could mean that processes run on behalf of Pnews, e.g. the relaynews that
inews fires up, are still running and are not prepared to cope with bizarre
job-control signals.  I can't really venture a more detailed opinion, since
job control is such a hideous mess that I can't look at it without getting
sick.  I don't doubt that there is ample potential for trouble there.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry