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SubjectRe: Documenting MS_RELATIME
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks
> >
> > Just why does not it use mtime then to check for New Mail Arrived, like
>
> I have always used:
>
> --enable-buffy-size Use file size attribute instead of access time
>
> Support was there at least in 1998, maybe before.

Good point. However, this works for mutt because new mail is an
append-only operation. Other apps don't have the guarantee that file
modifications that they care about will change the file size.

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