2.3: "paused" nntp channels

[Russ Allbery]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
>>  Heath Kehoe <heath.kehoe at intermec.com> wrote;

>>> Why do all of the nntp sites say 'paused'?  Looking at the code, it
>>> prints 'paused' if (cp->MaxCnx > 0 && cp->ActiveCnx == 0) .  Which
>>> implies that cp->ActiveCnx is 0 for all of the sites.  It seems to me
>>> that this is incorrect.

> I see this too, with 12-14-1999 snap. I haven't seen any other problems,
> I'm running it production on several machines.

Heath sent in a patch to fix this bug, which has now been committed and
should be in last night's snapshots.  It's a long-standing one that goes
back at least to 2.2, but it involves unintialized data so it shows up
randomly.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>