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In article <1gb1usINN5e2@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
>It turns out that this is happening because /usr/spool/news on the
>machine running innd is an NFS-mounted filesystem, and innd is trying
>to do an FIONBIO on my feed file, which is under /usr/spool/news/out.going.
>
>(tal@warren.mentorg.com adds:)
>All news transports (INN, C news, B news) want the spool partition to
>be local.  Newsreader can read from an NFS mounted partition without
>any problems but innd should only see local partitions.  NFS has a blantant
>disreguard for many of the file semantics that are needed for a good news
>implementation.  If you don't agree, please feel free to prove the authors
>of B news, C news, TMNNN (?), and INN wrong.  Include source code.

I certainly agree that the news transport shouldn't access the spool via
NFS - but why does INN try to to do an FIONBIO on a *file*?  Surely it
wouldn't be very expensive to precede it with an fstat, or perhaps
follow the failed FIONBIO with one, or just remember that it is a file
since the opening...?

--Per Hedeland
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