Program "crosspost" useful?
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Sun Dec 14 19:39:42 UTC 2008
Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:
> What is the use of backends/crosspost?
> It seems to have been broken since 1997 (change of storage API).
>
> ** Parse input to add links for cross posted articles. Input format is one
> ** line per article. Dots '.' are changed to '/'. Commas ',' or blanks
> ** ' ' separate entries. Typically this is via a channel feed from innd
> ** though an edit of the history file can also be used for recovery
> ** purposes. Sample newsfeeds entry:
> **
> ** # Create the links for cross posted articles
> ** crosspost:*:Tc,Ap,WR:/usr/local/newsbin/crosspost
> **
> ** WARNING: This no longer works with the current INN; don't use it
> ** currently. It still exists in the source tree in case someone will
> ** want to clean it up and make it useable again.
>
> What would INN have that program now for? What is the need?
The idea is that with a tradspool spool, you can offload the process of
creating symlinks to a separate process and do a bit more work in
parallel. However, at this point, anyone who cares a lot about
performance is probably using a different storage backend for most of
their groups. At this point, I think we can just delete it.
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