Re: Make unread the same as new
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:47:27AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:57:24PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > ................................................... For example, to
> > speed up message retrieval in mbox folders, you could cache the file
> > offsets of the start of each message, and maybe the start of each
> > message's body.
>
> Of course, this assumes that the offsets remain the same always - in
> the real networked multi-user world you cannot make such
> assumptions.
No, it does not assume that at all. But it does require that
processes verify that the spool has not changed since the cache was
last updated.
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