Re: Mutt Next Generation
On Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 20:20, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> What I'm skeptical about is the point that maildir is built very
> carefully not to require standard Unix locking functions. That
> makes maildir the most robust folder format around, even in broken
> NFS environments.
>
> The hcache patch, as I read it, requires locking mechanisms to work.
> Hence, it will take some of maildir's stability away.
My understanding is that the cache has been built to take care not to
require locking on the maildir. There is a lock on the cache, but if
something goes wrong with that, mutt just falls back to direct access
to the maildir.