Re: Posting works again
Sam, on host 209.6.138.211
Wednesday, May 12, 1999, at 17:40:06
Re: Posting works again posted by Darien on Wednesday, May 12, 1999, at 16:08:23:
> > Sorry about that. For the last forty five minutes or so, posting to the message forum was not possible. Now it's back. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > What happened?
GreenJeanz and Howard posted messages at the exact same time, and what's known as a "race condition" occurred and screwed things up. Both messages ended up being written to the same file, but only GreenJeanz's survived, because her post was apparently the second one to be written out. I had to put a stop to the posting to ensure no one would be changing files as I was fixing things manually. Besides the message index pages that had incorrect message links, a bunch of message files themselves had incorrect message links. Took me a while to sort it out. Then I fixed the submit script to reduce the changes of a race condition happening in the future.
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