Re: ANNOUNCE: maildir header cache for current development cvs
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:36:06PM EST, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>
> > > > The access time wouldn't be useful for cygwin.
> > >
> > > This isn't an issue because we can fallback on modification time for
> > > cygwin.
> >
> > But the point was that access time is not portable (and I seem to recall
> > noting that it is a feature of the filesystem rather than the operating
> > environment).
>
> Well, Mutt can check at runtime whether or not the FS is mounted noatime
> by simply creating a temp file, waiting a second, then reading it,
more than a second, actually. sleep() won't necessarily wait a whole
second, and there are (no surprise) filesystems that don't record times
in seconds.
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