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From: stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Need to patch inews/rnews so it will watch for inode underflow
Keywords: inews/rnews, inode_count
Message-ID: <222@tree.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 19:41:04 GMT
Organization: TREE BBS (916)-349-0385 Sacramento, Ca
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Once upon a time I thought 70 megs of storage was massive; then I met usenet!
Now every night before I go to bed I say a little prayer that I won't awake
to an inode underflow caused by an inews that is too stupid to look before it
leaps.
 
Does anyone have a patch for inews which will give it a little intelligence and
allow it to exit rather than corrupt the inode table?
 
If not, can anyone provide me with a C routine to count inodes?  I suppose
I could periodically run "df -t" as a child of inews and catch the result via
a pipe . . . but that would be ugly and slow.