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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Are there problems if expire runs while news is being received?
Message-ID: <2687@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 17:44:56 EST
Article-I.D.: pegasus.2687
Posted: Thu Dec 19 17:44:56 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Dec-85 04:13:15 EST
References: <186@pluto.UUCP> <65@calma.UUCP>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (60545451-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, Lincroft, NJ
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Keywords: expire inews/rnews
Summary: expire problems fixed

Marsh Gosnell and I have fixed the problems with expire and rnews running at
the same time. The code modifications to expire.c and inews.c are being
passed back to Rick. Essentially we:

    1)	provide a lock while expire is redoing its history/active files
    2)	if rnews sees the lock, it shunts the files into SPOOL/save.news
    3)	when expire is done with the history/active files, it invokes
	rnews on each file within SPOOL/save.news

					Tony Hansen
					ihnp4!pegasus!hansen