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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help with inode problem with News 2.11 PL 17
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Date: 17 Mar 89 11:56:19 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <890@ernest.UUCP> lae@ernest.UUCP (Alan Edmonds) writes:
: I have an intermitent free inode problem unbatching a compressed news
: feed.  During a rnews -U run from cron, I start getting the following
: errors in the log file.

You have run into the Dreaded System V Inode Bug!

This is a kernel bug. AT&T has screwed us all by having not fixed
this known bug, which has existed for years.

If you are running Microport V/386 3.0e, I have a kernel patch that
will fix this.  Other people may have patches for other systems.  As
a last resort, if you are good with a disassembler finding the right
place to patch isn't too hard.

Good luck.

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Bill
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(BTW, I'm going to be looking for a new job sometime in the next
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