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From: root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: "vn" disk space leak?
Message-ID: <203@libove.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 06:09:23 GMT
Organization: Libove, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
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I use the "vn" news reader to read news, incidentally on a SCO Xenix
2.2.1 /286 system, and I find that it has a file, hidden somewhere
(I think it opens the file and then unlinks it, so it can be extended
but an "ls" will not give its length as other than zero, or soemthing
else...) that grows linearly with the time vn remains running, even
if absolutely nothing at all has been done. In the course of an hour,
400K of disk space was eaten, in the particular instance that keyed
me off to send this note out.

Is anyone famailiar with this? Does anyone know exactly what is
happenning, why it is happenning, what I can do about it?

Thanks in advance-
-- 
Jay Libove		ARPA:	jl42@andrew.cmu.edu or libove@cs.cmu.edu
5731 Centre Ave, Apt 3	BITnet:	jl42@andrew or jl42@drycas
Pittsburgh, PA 15206	UUCP:	uunet!nfsun!libove!libove or
(412) 362-8983		UUCP:	psuvax1!pitt!darth!libove!libove