Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site adiron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!adiron!tish From: tish@adiron.UUCP (Tish Esposito) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: problems with readnews Message-ID: <273@adiron.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:43:58 EST Article-I.D.: adiron.273 Posted: Fri Nov 1 10:43:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 04:25:54 EST Organization: PAR Technology, New Hartford, NY Lines: 14 We are running the netnews distributed with 4.2BSD - version 2.10.1 When articles in net.unix-wizards ran beyond 8192 - readnews dumped core. After perusing the sources a bit it was discovered that a char bitmap[1024] is being used to keep track of articles read by a user (8 * 1024 = 8192) so our problem seemed apparent. After some more looking however there seemed to be some other inconsistensies in netnews bookeeping. Articles may go as high as 99998, and in one place in the code the bitmap array is cleared from 0 to 99998/8 (12500) entries. I'm sure that other sites have experienced this problem. Before hacking away at this code, I was wondering any site already has a fix for this problem. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Please respond via mail to duke!adiron!tish. Thanks!!