Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!jetson!john
From: john@jetson.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: locking in inews (2.11)
Message-ID: <84@jetson.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 14:15:25 GMT
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> Apparently 'kunivv1.sci.kun.nl' is not (yet?) a valid domain name.
I had the same problem.

> Maybe "the other program" is a concurrent invocation of inews ?
Or, more importantly, expire, which would get quite confused if the
active file were changed while it was running.  (It would, I think,
write back what it thought the active file should be, removing any
record of new articles, or, worse, newly created/removed groups.  The
history dbm database would be similarly munged by simultaneous
changes.)

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