On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:05:47PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote:
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> >Yes. Mind the performance penalty tho.
>
> Not a bad idea. The performance penalty would be tiny, reading buffers
> that are about to be written out won't cause an extra page fault.
True.
> >> A possible complication with this approach is that my reading of
> >> Maildir infers that "info" can only be set when the file moves from
> >> Maildir/new/ to Maildir/cur/.
> >
> >That's what the spec says, indeed. A delivery process is not supposed
> >to know anything, so :info is not needed in new/.
>
> Gee, we find that even Dan isn't infallible. In retrospect, there's all
> sorts of hints that the delivery process could leave.
The spec is not 100% specific everywhere. And indeed, hints can be put
in lots of places :)
Greetz, Peter.
