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[svn] * TODO,content.c,lock.c,server.c,server.h: Remove bug notice re: need to do a Cont_write on Lock_closeDatabases in case of unwritten content changes when releasing the lock. Update content to keep dirty flag and avoid unnecessary writes, and lock to signal server to re-read its group content info after the lock is released. Do NOT write content info on Lock_close if dirty, as the placeholder article in unsubscribed groups is currently done by adding it to the content when joining the group and deliberately not saving it unless another content modification takes place and thus causes the content to be saved.
author bears
date Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:29:50 +0000
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2 NOFFLE Todolist
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3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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5 Urgent
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6 ------
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8 * Has Client_connect resource leaks if it fails?
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10 * Make debug logging an option in the config file instead of using
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11 a compile time option. This makes it more comfortable for users helping on
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12 bug searches to switch on debug logging temporarily.
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14 Later
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17 * Make Noffle handle a connection break-down during a fetch more gracefully.
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18 At present it still continues to fetch articles, generating a
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19 retrieving failed article for each article left.
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21 * Improve performance of group database. Using GDBM is a bad choice,
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22 better use a btree from the Berkeley db library in libc.
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23 This will be a good time for a redesign of the group.h interface
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24 with respect to process concurrency if the simple global locking strategy
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25 will be changed in the future.
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27 * Add "hostname" config option for setting the FQHN in generated message IDs.
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29 * Read timeout when running as server and automatically close if client
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30 does not send data for a longer time.
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32 * Implement simple filter using popen or fifos.
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34 * Make compatible to latest NNTP draft.
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36 * Improve speed of online mode: Keep connection to server open for a while
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38 * Check all in
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39 http://mars.superlink.net/user/tal/writings/news-software-authors.html
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40 (Use NOV library? Use inews for validating posted articles? ... )
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42 * Store requested articles by group + number. This would allow to create
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43 pseudo-groups (like <groupname>.requested) that contained only fully
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44 downloaded articles in overview mode (very nice and clever
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45 idea sent in by a user, it would make using overview mode much easier).
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46 Second advantage: Noffle would work with servers that have retrieving
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47 articles by message-id disabled.
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49 * Expire should clean up empty request/outgoing directories, so they will not
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52 * Do not log program abortion due to SIGINT, if no inconsistency can occur,
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54 pressing ^C).
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56 * Improve www page and documentation.
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58 * Keeping the content list for several lock/unlock times could lead to
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59 inconsistent results, because content list is maybe modified by
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62 * Optimize NEWGROUPS (extra list?)
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64 * Add noffle query option for checking all groups, if they are still
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65 available at the remote server(s) and delete them otherwise.
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67 * In online mode, retrieve full article header from remote server if client
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68 sends a HEAD command. Presently, only the header lines from the overview
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69 are returned and the article is only retrieved on an ARTICLE or BODY command.
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70 The reason for this was that some readers (like pine) retrieve the group
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71 overview by sending lots of HEAD commands and their performance would badly
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72 suffer. On the other hand, some readers (like slrn) cache the header from
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73 a HEAD command, even if a following ARTICLE command gets more header lines,
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74 so that not all header lines are available when reading news in online mode,
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80 User-Wishlist
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81 -------------
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83 * Group requesting: I'd like noffle mantain a whitelist of users who can
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84 request new subscriptions: for instance, if user mardy wants noffle to
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85 fetch headers of it.comp.os.linux, he could just post a message to
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86 noffle.control with something like this in the body:
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87 subscribe-over: it.comp.os.linux
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91 -----------------
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93 * Understand supersedes header (useful for reading news.answers group)
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95 * Get and execute cancel messages (read control.cancel, but use xpat to get
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96 only cancels for groups in fetchlist). Seems to be expensive (20000 headers
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97 a day, takes the remote server to search through)
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