Re: ANNOUNCE: maildir header cachefor current development cvs (WAS: Re: [OT] I'm Just A Programmer and Re: ANNOUNCE: maildir header cachefor current development cvs))

[Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Right. But the same problem exists with a special file, only worse.
> *No* other tool will know about this file and touch it, whereas at
> least those tools that don't edit files in place will touch the
> directories cur and new indirectly by renaming files.

that's true. But they're also tools which just change the message while
they're in cur, new or tmp and so the only way to detect changes is to
stat the file each time before restoring the data from the cache and
compare the timestamp with the one in the cache entry.

        Thomas