+/*---------- expiry, flow control and deferral ----------*/
+
+/*
+ * flow control notes
+ * to ensure articles go away eventually
+ * separate queue for each input file
+ * queue expiry
+ * every period, check head of backlog queue for expiry with SMretrieve
+ * if too old: discard, and check next article
+ * also check every backlog article as we read it
+ * flush expiry
+ * after too long in SEPARATED/DROPPING ie Separated/Finishing/Dropping
+ * one-off: eat queued articles from flushing and write them to defer
+ * one-off: connfail all connections which have any articles from flushing
+ * newly read articles from flushing go straight to defer
+ * this should take care of it and get us out of this state
+ * to avoid filling up ram needlessly
+ * input control
+ * limit number of queued articles for each ipf
+ * pause/resume inputfile tailing
+ */
+
+static void check_reading_pause_resume(InputFile *ipf) {
+ if (ipf->queue.count >= max_queue_per_ipf)
+ inputfile_reading_pause(ipf);
+ else
+ inputfile_reading_resume(ipf);
+}
+
+static void article_defer(Article *art /* not on a queue */, int whichcount) {
+ open_defer();
+ if (fprintf(defer, "%s %s\n", TokenToText(art->token), art->messageid) <0
+ || fflush(defer))
+ sysdie("write to defer file %s",path_defer);
+ article_done(art, whichcount);
+}
+