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Users of broken platforms can still use liblockfile, with its horrible sleep()'s, (or else don't keep the cache on NFS). I think there's no point in re-writing liblockfile. There's no fundamental reason why it shouldn't work. Maybe the bug is even fixed in Linux 2.6, and they just haven't updated the man pages yet?.
2008-03-04 14:47:26 UTC in nget
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That's the reason. Unless you create a ".lock" file for every newsgroup in the overview, you'd still be vulnerable to a race condition, when the group's cache is first created, or even first re-created after a flush. That's admittedly improbable in practice -- I simply didn't care for the idea of leaving the ".lock" files about for aesthetic reasons. You could skimp on lock files, but not...
2008-03-03 16:07:07 UTC in nget
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File Added: nget-gcc-4.2.2-warnings.diff.
2007-12-05 05:45:55 UTC in nget
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Here's a patch to compile with gcc 4.2.2. Also, in a separate file, a little "const" sprinkling elminates a great number of warnings.
2007-12-05 05:43:57 UTC in nget
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Here's a patch to avoid the "strict aliasing" warning from gcc in "rdoff.c". I simply use an assignment for a cast, but the "restrict" qualifier -- if I have this right -- permits "c" to be an alias for "data", so it should take no storage and incur no run-time overhead.
2007-11-18 15:40:17 UTC in The Netwide Assembler
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Does "usegz=0" in $NGETRC work for you?
In general, users aren't expected to disable system
libraries unless they're breaking the build, and In My
Humble Opinion, it's pointless to try to make "configure"
output useful and informative at every turn. What would you
say to a user who doesn't have or ?.
2006-11-13 17:12:25 UTC in nget
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Here's a careful implementation of generic fcntl
locking that should work on just about any system where
the underlying file-system supports POSIX fcntl locks.
It goes the "whole nine yards", protecting the locks
by open()-ing a flag file using O_EXCL semantics.
This may seem excessive at first glance, but my testing
and comparison with nget's flock() locking exposed some
bugs in the...
2006-11-13 16:35:33 UTC in nget
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-- Add support for SVR4 curses. (Without this,
generic_clr_bol() deletes the previous line in "screen"
with default settings.) Reorganize the test, so that
it checks, in turn, for "netbsd_curses", "new_curses",
"old_curses".
-- Allow for "pid_t" being "long" on Solaris. This
merely fixes a warning on SunOS-5.10-i386, but it could
address a real problem on architectures where "long"...
2006-11-13 15:17:33 UTC in nget
