Running 2.7.2.1 under Digital UNIX 4.0 the update process would run once
when you first started nntpcached but would never run again after that. I
believe that was because the UpdateDaemonPid didn't get cleared. The following
patch appears to have fixed that.
--- nntpcache.c~ Sun Feb 15 18:06:27 1998
+++ nntpcache.c Thu Mar 26 17:55:47 1998
@@ -251,15 +251,20 @@
static void check_child ()
{
-#ifdef HAVE_WAIT3
- int pid = wait3 (NULL, WNOHANG, NULL);
-#else
+ int pid;
+
+ while ((pid =
#ifdef HAVE_WAITPID
- int pid = waitpid ((pid_t) - 1, NULL, WNOHANG);
+ waitpid ((pid_t) - 1, NULL, WNOHANG)
+#else
+#ifdef HAVE_WAIT3
+ wait3 (NULL, WNOHANG, NULL)
#else
#error no wait3 or waitpid for this system
#endif
#endif
+ ) > 0) {
+
if (pid == UpdateDaemonPid)
{
UpdateDaemonPid = 0;
@@ -273,7 +278,7 @@
{
NocemDaemonPid = 0;
}
-
+ }
}
static RETSIGTYPE sigchld (int sig)
cheers
mark
