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Subject: Re: Majordomo zeroing out lists
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:14:00 -0600 (CST)
To: lazlo @ swcp . com (Lazlo Nibble)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199702072029.NAA19416@llama.swcp.com> from "Lazlo Nibble" at Feb 7, 97 01:29:51 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Lazlo Nibble writes: ]
> 
> I seem to recall some discussion which concluded that 1.94 was no longer
> capable of accidentally zeroing out subscriber lists.  Am I misremembering?
> That happened to at least a couple of lists at the site that hosts my lists
> this week.

There was never anything accidental about it, just sloppy error
checking. Yes, 1.94 is rumored to have plugged all those leaks, but if
you're running Mj on an NFS mount, locks don't work and anything can
happen.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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