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From: david@ci-dandelion.UUCP (David Watson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: 2.11 hangs
Message-ID: <1102@ci-dandelion.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 23:08:34 EST
Article-I.D.: ci-dande.1102
Posted: Thu Apr 16 23:08:34 1987
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Reply-To: david@ci-dandelion.UUCP (David Watson)
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We noticed the same problem you did, namely that newgroup messages
for already-created groups "hung" news 2.11.

By glancing at a few table entries with sps and pstat, I found that inews
had blocked for exclusive access to our sys file, which it itself
had apparently locked a moment before!

At this moment, I've recompiled inews for LOCKF (we run Ultrix)
but I haven't installed it to see if that fixes the problem.
There was a huge flurry of redundant "newgroups" today, which
really made the afternoon a bit exciting, so I imagine lots of
other sites can report this same bug.

			-D.