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Re: [leafnode-list] Cannot allocate memory?



Matthias Andree wrote:
> texpire is currently terminating right away if fetchnews is still active.
> I'm not sure why it does that,

There is the possibility that a run of texpire will affect the groupinfo
file which is already locked by fetchnews. That means that concurrent runs
of fetchnews and texpire may result in a garbled groupinfo file and are
therefore undesirable.

--Cornelius.

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