1.0.6 : Tue Apr 1 23:36:49 EST 1997 /* no joke :) */
* port: snprintf/vsnprintf functions in
libproff for systems that didn't have it.
* port: setproctitle support code in libproff for
systems that didn't have it in libc
(the majority).
* update: autoconf 2.12
* bugfix: Permit ':' in path's. Safepath() didn't
permit ':' before and as a consequence
some operations on servers on ports
other than 119 failed.
* change: various optimisations thoughout
* change: updated version of user-contributed
pre-caching code "newshound" from
Andre Dedio.
* new: re-thread the newsgroup nodes with an
activity queue. we don't actually use this
thread yet, but it forms the backbone of
the active-pre-cache code.
* new: active re-writing of colliding Xref:'s. It was
possible on a multi-server configuration to
experience articles that are cross-posted to
newsgroups which span news servers. Because
different servers have different article
numbering for the same group, it was possible
for news-readers to falsely take the view that
an article in a group handled by another
server has already been read when it has not.
This sometimes caused even more severe problems
with trn4, when the false-article count was
over high-water - causing trn4 to believe that
ALL the messages in the affected group were
read sometime into the future.
* bugfix: when a group was in the group list, and the group
information had expired in the cache, and the
designated server refused to serve the server
refused to serve the group, TWO error messages
were given instead of one (confusing news readers).
* new: optimise LIST {list-type} pattern, where "pattern"
is actually a fixed newsgroup (i.e not a pattern).
trn fetches group information using this evil
construct.
* port: modify genextern.sh to use only sed and egrep, and
avoid the use of cpp(1). some cpp's (noticibly
linux) didn't work correctly with the below form:
#define foo(x) #y
or
#define foo(x) x
foo(#foo)
* bugfix: history collection for groups with _ in their
names was buggy
* change: lower syslog priority of bad client quit's to
DEBUG
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|together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
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