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From: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: another (hopefully) harmless query
Message-ID: <773@daemon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 16:37:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 16:37:27 1985
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In article <197@greipa.UUCP> paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie) writes:
>If net.micro is held in /usr/spool/net/micro, and net.micro.432 is held
>in /usr/spool/net/micro/432, where will article #432 in net.micro be held?

	Let's assume that net.micro.432 (the newsgroup) already exists when
article 431 of net.micro is posted.  When the next net.micro article gets
localized, the link() to the file named "432" will fail returning EEXISTS
and the news software will try to link the article to "433" which should
succeed.

	I don't know as much about what the newsreading interfaces do if
they get to an article file that is really a directory.  Maybe just check
to see that it's a regular file first.

	[Sorry to post this to the net - I thought it to be generally
useful information.]

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David C. Stewart                          uucp:    tektronix!davest
Small Systems Support Group               csnet:   davest@TEKTRONIX
Tektronix, Inc.                           phone:   (503) 627-5418