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Re: [leafnode-list] writeactive() not updating mtime?

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Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] writeactive() not updating mtime?
From: Joerg Dietrich <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: by mail-ob (mbox horst.fischer)(with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Fri Nov 10 21:43:56 2000)

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:18:31AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > I suggest fetchnews should re-obtain the lock while doing fixxover().
> 
> What's the point of that? Is unlock/relock what you want?

There is definitely no need for a global lock while writing
overview files. Actually, we abandoned this long ago. A fine
locked grain on the .overview file being created might be worth
considering to avoid two or more concurrent processes messing up
the xover information.

Regards,
	Jo:rg

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