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Re: Mutt Next Generation



On 2005-01-27 12:32:39 -0800, Brendan Cully wrote:

> My understanding is that the cache has been built to take care
> not to require locking on the maildir. 

There is no disagreement on this.

> There is a lock on the cache, 

Precisely.

> but if something goes wrong with that, mutt just falls back to
> direct access to the maildir.

What if something goes wrong in a way that's not detected? That's
precisely the issue with non-working locking.

Regards,
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Thomas Roessler · Personal soap box at <http://log.does-not-exist.org/>.