Re: [PATCH 10/10] test: use emacsclient(1) for Emacs tests

Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] test: use emacsclient(1) for Emacs tests

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:20:32 -0700

To: Austin Clements

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Carl Worth


On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:34:58 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:
> Or, really, any file system, since notmuch doesn't currently take
> advantage of sub-second mtimes.

Oh, ouch. I hadn't realized that I'd codified the 1-second granularity
mtime into the notmuch API.

Oh well, we could extend that with a floating-point API as needed.

> > Austin has a plan to fix the use of the mtime timestamp in notmuch,
> > (never storing the current mtime in the database if it's the same as
> > the current time), that should hopefully close this race window.
> 
> Posted.

Thanks!

-Carl

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carl.d.worth@intel.com
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