Re: [notmuch] Asynchronous tagging

Subject: Re: [notmuch] Asynchronous tagging

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:09 +0100

To: Carl Worth

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Karl Wiberg


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

> Does offlineimap use tmp while it's delivering message and then move
> things to new? If so, then maybe all we need to do to fix notmuch to not
> look into tmp directories?

That's probably the right thing to do regardless---IIRC, the tmp
directory exists so that processes can put messages there while they
are writing them, and then do an atomic rename to the new (or cur)
directory.

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Karl Wiberg, kha@treskal.com
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