tish@adiron.UUCP (Tish Esposito) (11/01/85)
We are running the netnews distributed with 4.2BSD - version 2.10.1 When articles in net.unix-wizards ran beyond 8192 - readnews dumped core. After perusing the sources a bit it was discovered that a char bitmap[1024] is being used to keep track of articles read by a user (8 * 1024 = 8192) so our problem seemed apparent. After some more looking however there seemed to be some other inconsistensies in netnews bookeeping. Articles may go as high as 99998, and in one place in the code the bitmap array is cleared from 0 to 99998/8 (12500) entries. I'm sure that other sites have experienced this problem. Before hacking away at this code, I was wondering any site already has a fix for this problem. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Please respond via mail to duke!adiron!tish. Thanks!!
jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) (11/07/85)
In article <273@adiron.UUCP> tish@adiron.UUCP (Tish Esposito) writes: >We are running the netnews distributed with 4.2BSD - version 2.10.1 This is the version of news that contains the infamous line-eater bug. There are other problems as well; you're apparently running into some of them. Version 2.10.2 has been the standard version of news for over a year. 2.10.3 is now in beta test. I presume it will be released via mod.sources soon -- could some knowledgeable person please post a message discussing its status? The bitmap is gone from 2.10.2. This is good: the bitmap was too easy to corrupt. I recommend that you convert to 2.10.2 as soon as possible. Someone in your area should have the sources. Will some kind soul that talks to, or is geographically near, adiron, please provide them with the new sources? IMPROVE THE NET -- STAMP OUT OBSOLETE NEWS SOFTWARE -- Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc. UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck | 10011 N. Foothill Blvd. ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014
mlr0@bunny.UUCP (Martin Resnick) (04/03/86)
I would like readnews to display all of the messages in each specified group in my .newsrc file before going on to the next group. Currently, if a message is posted to more than one group and the other group is in my .newsrc, the message is sometimes skipped (probably depends on the order of the posted newsgroups vs my .newsrc) and not displayed until I get to the other group which contains the message. I find this to be frustrating when I have a large number of groups in .newsrc and don't have time to get to all of them. My .newsrc is arranged so that the groups are in order of importance. Does vnews or rn do this? If I notice a message has been skipped by readnews and read it manually by specifing the number, readnews seems to get confused and screws up my .newsrc so that when I subsequently run readnews, I get previously read (but not saved) messages displayed!! Has anyone else seen this problem? Has it been fixed in 2.10.3? What is the current status of 2.10.3? Thanks.