From: "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir@imca-cat.org>
To: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>
Cc: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
843127@bugs.debian.org, notmuch@notmuchmail.org,
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [Paul Wise] Bug#843127: notmuch: race condition in `notmuch new`?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:44:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114184402.GB23082@tuna.imca.aps.anl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161113015107.GC5670@csail.mit.edu>
On 11/12, Austin Clements wrote:
> Quoth David Bremner on Nov 04 at 1:26 pm:
> > I agree it looks like a race condition. inotify sounds a bit
> > overcomplicated and perhaps non-portable? It should probably just
> > tolerate disappearing files better, consider that a warning.
>
> Inotify really *is* the solution.
I don't see how inotify can be the solution unless the idea is to make
Notmuch run on Linux only. Inotify is a Linux kernel API. Some other
OSes have their own native file event notification facilities, but not
all of them have it, and most (if not all) only support file event
notifications for certain file systems and not for others (e.g., not for
NFS).
Regards,
Lewis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-14 18:52 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 [this message]
2016-11-14 18:59 ` David Bremner
2016-11-04 18:47 ` Jani Nikula
2016-11-05 2:15 ` Paul Wise
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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