I found that I was getting an incomplete News hierarchy in the <cacheDir>
directory, when the whole hierarchy should be in <cacheDir>/<server host>.
(I have only one upstream server host at the moment.)
It turns out that CurrentDir isn't properly tracking cwd, and that for
instance a newly forked nntpcached often starts out with CurrentDir set to
<cacheDir>/<server host>, but real cwd <cacheDir>. This is due to several
places where chdir (con.cacheDir) is done without CurrentDir being updated.
For my needs, it was enough to invalidate CurrentDir in one place:
*** list.c.orig Fri Nov 8 21:29:00 1996
--- list.c Sun Feb 9 19:10:48 1997
***************
*** 339,344 ****
--- 339,345 ----
Stats->list_overview_fmt_cached_bytes = bytes;
}
chdir (con.cacheDir);
+ strcpy(CurrentDir, ""); /* Invalidate */
return bytes;
}
log (("merging '%s' from %s with existing group information", list->name, scfg->host));
Note that this is not a general solution - there are still several places
(for instance when running the "updatedaemon") where real cwd is updated
without a corresponding update to CurrentDir. I don't know how important
these are...
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
