Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:57:33 -0800 | From | Valerie Henson <> | Subject | Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME |
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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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