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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.mail.misc,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Another way that news eats inodes
Message-ID: <3318@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 28 Dec 87 15:53:25 GMT
References: <440@minya.UUCP> <375@octopus.UUCP> <7958@e.ms.uky.edu> <376@octopus.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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We've seen the zero-length file bug, too (with SPOOLNEWS), but we've never
run out of i-nodes or disk space.  I finally patched around it by
checking the length of the newly-created file, and unlinking it if
necessary....