Acbosgd.2089
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Mon Mar 1 19:56:05 1982
Re: news bug
In reference to smb's bug report suggesting interchange of two lines...
Do not make this change. It is NOT a bug, merely a misfeature which
will only show up if you run two newses on the same machine while
making each think the other is a different machine.
The call to savehist was deliberately moved as far back as possible
so that when something goes wrong (protection problem, core dump,
whatever) the history is not saved, giving other machines a chance
to send you the article and have it successfully make it to your system.
This is especially useful when debugging some weird case.
However, it really matters little. smb's change only moves it up a
little, and only the broadcasting code, historically a trouble free
spot, is affected. Also, the bugs are all fixed (knock on wood).
So you'll never notice whether you change it except that diffs based
on our master copy (which will not have the change in it) might be off.
If you really want to run both newses, the right way to do this is to
make rnews a shell script which copies stdin to a temp file, calls
each version of rnews on the temp file, and removes the temp file.
Only one news should broadcast to neighbors. We did this for some
time at Berkeley before switching over with no ill effects.
Mark
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