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Re: [leafnode-list] delaybody configurability
Cornelius Krasel said:
> As I see, this is only possible by one of the following approaches:
>
> 1) Converting groupinfo into a database to allow record-based locking
> instead of locking the whole file. I am somewhat reluctant to do
> this, because one of the things in leafnode that I like is that the
> storage format is extremely simple. I would like to keep it that way.
>
> 2) Implementing a daemon which is the only program allowed to read out
> and write the groupinfo file. Any other programs requesting information
> or changing entries into that file would have to talk to that daemon.
> This is the approach which I currently favour.
What about just having fetchnews open groupinfo, read a group, update
groupinfo, fflush the file handle, read the next group, etc.? Unless I'm
mistaken, fetchnews should be the only process that's making any changes to
groupinfo anyhow and *nix generally tends to be pretty friendly about letting
one process read a file while another process is writing to it.
> If you are interested in hacking code, I can email you the latest 2.0a10.
Please do.
> No. Should we create one? (Actually, I like it the way it is, but others
> might complain.)
If it's not already there, no. I was just checking to see if I was asking in
the wrong place.
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