From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [Paul Wise] Bug#843127: notmuch: race condition in `notmuch new`?
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:15:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1478312104.1979.8.camel@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zilfxetb.fsf@nikula.org>
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On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 20:47 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Do you have some other software modifying your mail store while
> you're running notmuch new?
The folder in question has my laptop's exim4 service writing to it when
my cron jobs generate email.
On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 13:26 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> inotify sounds a bit overcomplicated and perhaps non-portable?
There are similar APIs on non-Linux OSes but there is indeed no common
API or library to abstract away this sort of feature AFAIK.
> It should probably just tolerate disappearing files better, consider
> that a warning.
That sounds like the correct solution indeed. Probably if the code
notices that a file disappeared, it should also rescan the nearby
folders to see if the file was moved instead of deleted.
> As a workaround, if you can replace background use of notmuch-new
> with notmuch-insert (and I understand this doesn't work for
> everyone), you will eliminate this kind of race condition.
Hmm, I don't think that will work for me.
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-05 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-04 12:46 [Paul Wise] Bug#843127: notmuch: race condition in `notmuch new`? David Bremner
2016-11-04 16:26 ` David Bremner
2016-11-13 1:51 ` Austin Clements
2016-11-14 18:44 ` J. Lewis Muir
2016-11-14 18:59 ` David Bremner
2016-11-04 18:47 ` Jani Nikula
2016-11-05 2:15 ` Paul Wise [this message]
2016-11-05 12:57 ` [PATCH] cli: consider files vanishing during notmuch new non-fatal Jani Nikula
2016-11-05 13:22 ` Paul Wise
2016-11-12 15:39 ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 16:04 ` Brian Sniffen
2016-11-12 16:10 ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 16:15 ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 21:08 ` Brian Sniffen
2016-11-12 21:36 ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 20:35 ` Jani Nikula
2016-11-16 11:43 ` David Bremner
2016-11-21 20:14 ` [PATCH v2] " Jani Nikula
2016-11-26 2:44 ` [PATCH] cli/new: document new exit code David Bremner
2016-11-26 9:17 ` Jani Nikula
2016-11-26 9:18 ` [PATCH] test: check the handling of files vanishing between scandir and indexing Jani Nikula
2016-11-27 9:59 ` [PATCH v2] " Jani Nikula
2016-11-29 2:16 ` David Bremner
2016-11-29 7:31 ` Tomi Ollila
2016-12-03 11:24 ` David Bremner
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