[news.admin] Problems with news 2.11 patch #5

klim@hvrunix.UUCP (Kian-Tat Lim) (03/19/87)

I have noticed two problems with patch #5 for the netnews software as
distributed.  Am I imagining things, or are these really problems?
We are currently running news 2.11 PATCHLEVEL 4 without local modifications
on System V Release 3.0 on an AT&T 3B2/310.

1) The modifications to the area around line 148 in inews.c (presumably to
	fix up locking) were rejected.  I believe that the problem is a comment
	that currently reads "/* !LOCKF */" which the patch expects to be
	"/* V7 */".

2) The function "mydomain()", references to which were added to a number of
	files, including header.c and inews.c, is defined in uname.c.
	Unfortunately, the Makefile.dst has not been updated to reflect this.

Both of these are relatively easy to work around, but I would appreciate
seeing an official correction.
-- 
Kian-Tat Lim
Unix System Manager
Haverford College, Haverford, PA  19041-1392
K_LIM @ HVRFORD.BITNET; ihnp4!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!hvrunix!klim