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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: simulatneous updates to history (?bug)
Message-ID: <1818@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 01:58:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.1818
Posted: Sat Jul 20 01:58:35 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jul-85 23:02:19 EDT
Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA
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Keywords: inews, history, bugs, expire

If a user is posting an article at the same time the expire
program is running, isn't there some risk that inews and expire are
going to update the history database at the same time?  This
is particularly crucial to the dbm(3) database for history.
Has anyone examined this problem?  Has anyone implimented a
file-locking mechanism (portable!) for inews and expire?
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs}!amdahl!gam