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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Max article number reached?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.201746.11858@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 20:17:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk> <1991Apr25.215042.25734@world.std.com> <1991Apr26.182609.23026@uai.com> <50711@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <50711@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>On the other hand I don't know why the minart could not be updated in
>place just as the second field is.  That would eliminate the need to
>lock out news processing while doing the update.

Alas, not so.  Apart from that being harder to do, the in-place updates are
done *in memory* by relaynews on a large-memory machine, and it rewrites the
entire active file in one shot when it's done, so you really have to lock
it out.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry