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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Duplicate articles from B news site - would C news help ??
Message-ID: <1088@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 21:13:51 GMT
References: <andy.659499523@xwkg> <16070@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <113417@uunet.UU.NET>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <113417@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Actually, I'm not exactly sure why the preceding matters, unless
>data read before a lock is obtained is rewritten. Ask Rick or Henry.

Speaking of B news locking, what prevents concurrent instances
of rnews from writing simultaneously to the history file?  A quick 
look at the code suggests savehist() could be doing this.