henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/14/90)
At present, C News follows B News practice in that its batcher input files contain full pathnames of articles. We do a small optimization in which the batcher chdirs to /whatever/spool/news at the start, and strips such a prefix off before using a filename. We're recently had a suggestion that it would save both space and processing time if the batcher files contained relative pathnames. This has merit. It also lets us take the chdir logic out of the batcher completely, and move it into the sendbatches shell file that supervises things. We like the idea. There are two possibly-significant impacts on programs using the files. First, they must be prepared for names relative to /whatever/spool/news. Second, C News batcher programs no longer get run in the out.going/site directory for their site, and cannot easily pick up extra control files, etc., from there. Is anybody doing anything which would have trouble with this? (Notably, does anything in NNTP use the batcher files and rely on full pathnames?) -- "...the i860 is a wonderful source | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology of thesis topics." --Preston Briggs | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) (10/16/90)
In article <1990Oct14.052007.26812@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >(Notably, does anything in NNTP use the batcher files and rely on full >pathnames?) I don't know about nntp itself, but my vianntp sender script just gets its input from the null batcher. No problems there (I think) -- \/ato. Ian Dickinson. GNU's feelin' horny. Kunst und Wahnsinn. vato@cu.warwick.ac.uk Sabeq. Mind the gap! vato@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk gdd046@cck.cov.ac.uk "I know what you sell - I don't want to buy!"