On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +0300, A. Alper ATICI wrote: > >>>On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>1. Leafnode relies on hard-link counts, so current implementation of > >>>>>hlinks on FAT32 breaks it. News spool has to be on NTFS, and it seems > >>>>>this will be an NT/2K/XP only package. > >>>> > >>>>Is that necessary? Can't that be ifdef'd for Cygwin? > >>> > >>>I've discussed this before with leafnode maintainer, Matthias Andree, > >>>and here's what he says: > >>> > >>><quote> The whole /var/spool/news/* organization relies on hard links. > >>> > >>>The expire process relies on the hard link count (st_nlink in struct > >>>stat, as in the <sys/stat.h> header file and returned by the stat() > >>>syscall) being correct, file copies on FAT32 will lead to premature > >>>expiry and a horrible waste of disk space, it may become unbearable for > >>>cross-posted articles. </quote> > >> > >>Ok, so I vote "no" on this package given the above restriction. > > > >Umm, why? Not that I'm voting for it, but as long as the package > >detects that it's not running on NTFS and bails out gracefully, it > >should be fine. We have other NT-only packages in the distro (e.g., > >editrights). > > There's a difference between a package that is designed for NT and a > general-purpose package that doesn't work on NT. ^^^^^ <PEDANTIC> ...on non-NT systems. </PEDANTIC>
> If there are other packages in the distribution which have this > restriction then I must have been asleep. > > Maybe Corinna disagrees, though. That's why I voted "no" rather > than offered an outright veto. > > cgf Oh, ok, I see the distinction. Agreed. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton