[tin 2.1.0] snaphsots
Urs Janßen <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:03:47 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.tin.devel |
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| Organization | tin.org |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I've made snapshots of the upcomming tin 2.1.0 (unstable) release. New stuff: - support for huge article numbers (2^63-1) if configured with --enable-long-article-numbers and system has int_least64_t or long long or quad_t. It's not enabled by default as article numbers higher than 2^63-1 do violate the current NNTP RFC. - with getart_limit set use LISTGROUP range instead of plain LISTGROUP, if LISTGROUP range is not supported use only GROUP (reduces traffic) - with getart_limit set don't malloc base[]/arts[] for articles below first_unread and outside the range. (reduces memory usage). Even with --enable-long-article-numbers tin still can't handle more than INT_MAX articles per group (i.e. 2^31-1). But as such groups would require several GB of RAM just for the meta-data this isn't a real problem (there is at least one provider with such a group: alt.binaries.boneless 5896156915 1527513710 y) and starting with this snapshot the group can be read with -G limit. <ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/unstable/snapshots/> urs -- Jef Poskanzer: "When people aren't stupid Usenet is even more useful. Too bad this happens so rarely."