rnews assumes it can safely rename spooled tmp files

Katsuhiro Kondou kondou at nec.co.jp
Sat Feb 26 02:39:32 UTC 2000


In article <01JMBIQEDI908WXPDW at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>,
	Joe St Sauver <JOE at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> wrote;

} I'd suggest modifying that behavior to either do a copy instead of
} a hard link by default, or to at least test for a cross-device
} disk layout, and only do hard links when safe.

It's known problem, but not fixed yet.  I think rnews
should not spool artilces to 'pathtmp/<tempname>', but
to 'pathincoming/.<tempname>'.  This will fix the
problem.  I'll modify, if no one objects.
-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou



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