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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>, meta@public-inbox.org
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Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 12:09:46PM -0500, Kyle Meyer wrote:
> > Johannes Altmanninger writes:
> > 
> > > I've been using lei from the 1.7.0 release, which works great.
> > >
> > > I had some unrelated problems with one of the created maildirs so I deleted
> > > said maildir.  Now I can't recreate the maildir. I tried deleting all
> > > persistent data but got an error:
> > >
> > > 	$ rm -rf the-maildir ~/.local/share/lei ~/.cache/{public-inbox,lei}
> > > 	$ lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/git/ -o the-maildir rt:1.week.ago..
> > > 	failed to open /home/johannes/.cache/lei/all_locals_ever.git/lei_ale.state: No such file or directory
> > > 	 at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm line 117.
> > >
> > > A quick look at strace doesn't show access to any other files in $HOME
> > 
> > Have you tried killing the daemon (`lei daemon-kill')?
> 
> Thanks, that fixed it. I wasn't aware that there is a daemon

Yeah, these are holes in our inotify coverage.  We use inotify
(and kevent) to monitor some things (Maildirs, sockets, ...),
but there are some missing pieces, as you've noticed :<

Will try to get around to fixing these at some point...