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From: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Race condition for '*' command
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:00:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86aad5c6h2.fsf@dragonfly.greenrd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjqx31mp.fsf@servo.factory.finestructure.net>

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:57:50 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:18:52 +0100, Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> wrote:
> > A race condition in the '*' command was noted when it was first
> > proposed. It looks to me like it still exists - has anything been done
> > about it?
> 
> Hi, Robin.  Can you explain what you mean by the "'*' command"?

Sorry - forgot to say I'm talking about the notmuch emacs mode. In that
mode '*' applies tags to all messages matching the current search query,
which means that (here's the race condition) new results that have
appeared since the last refresh will also be tagged.

-- 
Robin

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-26  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-25 22:18 Race condition for '*' command Robin Green
2011-06-25 23:57 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-26  9:00   ` Robin Green [this message]
2011-06-28  6:49     ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-28 17:36       ` Mark Anderson
2011-06-28 19:48         ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30 16:08           ` [PATCH 1/2] test: add/remove tags from all matching messages with `notmuch-search-operate-all' Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 16:08             ` [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] possible solution for "Race condition for '*' command" Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 19:38               ` Pieter Praet
2011-07-01 14:55                 ` Austin Clements

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