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Re: IMAP command pipelining (batched mailbox polling) now in CVS



On Monday, 19 December 2005 at 09:56, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Monday, 19 December 2005 at 11:31, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2005-12-18 16:46:41 -0800, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > > Ah, this was helpful. I think I found a race that could lead to
> > > this. Can you try the attached patch?
> > 
> > With this patch I no longer get new mail, though the debug file shows
> > that it is fetched.
> 
> Well, that's an improvement :)
> Actually I think I can see what's happening - thanks for the
> traces. (By the way -d2 is usually adequate, and would save you having
> to x-out the message headers.)
> 
> I hope to have a patch ready tonight. Hopefully it will solve Phil's
> problem too.

Actually I think the fix may be trivial. Try pulling the latest CVS
(there should be a note in the Changelog about "another possible data
race" in the IDLE code) and see how it goes.

And thanks for testing this out for me.