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Re: mutt/1914: as I read my mail the N never changes,



The following reply was made to PR mutt/1914; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: mutt/1914: as I read my mail the N never changes,
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:23:36 +0200

 On 2005-08-16 12:25:02 +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
 >      There is a known deficiency in the HFS filesystem of some versions
 >  of MacOSX: File's last access time is updated after a delay. This
 >  perturbates Mutt's detection of new mailboxes. This deficiency is
 >  supposedly fixed in MacOSX 10.4 / Darwin 8.0 / Tiger (confirmation
 >  wanted).
 
 Yes, this seems to be fixed in Tiger:
 
 prunille:~> echo > blah                                               <16:21:09
 prunille:~> lu blah                                                   <16:21:15
 -rw-r--r--  1 1 2005-08-16 16:21:15 blah
 prunille:~> cat blah                                                  <16:21:18
 
 prunille:~> lu blah                                                   <16:21:21
 -rw-r--r--  1 1 2005-08-16 16:21:21 blah
 prunille:~>                                                           <16:21:22
 
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