expireover.c patch

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Apr 24 18:27:00 UTC 2000


On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Heath Kehoe wrote:

> Currently, if you kill expireover while it's running, it could corrupt
> overview (at least, with ovdb) because it doesn't have a chance to
> OVclose.  This is a simple fix that allows it to exit cleanly from
> a signal.  This is kind of a bug fix, and I think it is appropriate
> for inclusion into the 2.3 beta.

  I certainly think that's a good idea! All too often news doesn't get
taken down in a controlled manner when a system is coming down, and a
signal really should be enough.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.




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