Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: faster B-news expire?
Message-ID: <1991May6.172933.21761@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 17:29:33 GMT
References: <24869@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <1991May2.040520.14012@zoo.toronto.edu> <17468@celit.fps.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <17468@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
>>The C News expire should work with B News...
>
>I thought that there were file locking issues due to the different
>locking mechanisms which Bnews and Cnews use.

Once upon a time the two were compatible, and C New's locking hasn't changed.
I think they are still compatible if you tell B News to use link() to do its
locking, although it's been so long since I configured a B system that I
make no promises on this.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry