Re: [leafnode-list] fetchnews patch

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am running leafnode 1.9.18 (because that's what Mandrake 8.1 comes with) 
> and found a bug which causes it to run out of file descriptors if there are 
> more than 1024 new articles when fetchnews is run (very likely if someone 
> subscribes to several newsgroups within the past hour). The following patch 
> fixes it; probably all the other "continue" statements in the same loop 
> should be preceded by closing the file.

I have a vague "this has been fixed before" feeling...

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Matthias Andree

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