On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: dean gaudet 2006-07-23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > please consider configuring mutt with --enable-buffy-size so that it > > doesn't rely on atime updates when determining if there's new mail. > > It should be make a configuration option.
that'd be OK... although it could be modified to use either filesize or atime (a change in either is good enough), rather than just one or the other. > > atimes are unreliable (consider a backup program -- it'll change the > > atimes) and a waste of disk i/o... > > Wrong. Any sane backup program resets the atimes. there's no way for a backup program to do this atomically -- there's a race between mutt reading the atime and the backup program resetting it. thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
