Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's Message-ID: <1991Mar28.220518.24447@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 22:05:18 GMT References: <3427@litchi.bbn.com> <1991Mar22.050749.22115@looking.on.ca> <50a41197.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <50a41197.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: >Wait, I've got an idea. How about numbering each article, starting with '1' >and going up. You could keep a counter, say in a file in /usr/lib/news, and >increment it each time... How do you coordinate simultaneous access to that file by multiple posters? Across a network filesystem? Across NFS (the thing that shambles like a filesystem)? What happens if it gets scrambled? Shared databases are a lot trickier than they look. C News abandoned that approach deliberately. -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry