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- utzoo!henry
- Mon Jan 4 20:27:44 1982
- uucp seqno wrapping
- A few months ago I described a serious problem in uucp: its four-digit
- sequence number can wrap around in a few days on a busy system, which
- leads to all kinds of ungood things for sites which infrequently poll
- a busy site. A possible minimum-effort solution has occurred to me:
- anybody have any idea how hard it would be to mung uucp to use a larger
- alphabet than just [0-9] for its sequence numbers? For example, if
- the alphabet was [0-9a-z], this would change decvax's current wraparound
- time of 3 days to roughly a year: much more reasonable. A quick
- glance at the code suggests it's not trivial but not hard; any uucp
- hackers care to comment? I seem to recall at least one site was working
- on an improved uucp -- how about incorporating this in your efforts?
-