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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
	Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: call "notmuch tag" only once when archiving a thread
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:58:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3axamtl.fsf@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcop3mx1.fsf@servo.finestructure.net>

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:38:18 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:32:16 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> > In the search view it does exactly this.
> 
> I worry about race conditions in this case, though.  I frequently
> archive threads after I've read everything, but I still want to know if
> new message to that thread come in.  If I attempt to archive a thread in
> notmuch-search, but a new message has entered the thread without me
> knowing it, I'll archive the new message before I had a chance to look
> at it.

Just to be clear: The patch in question does not alter this
behaviour. The race you describe is there already.

And at a glance, it does not look like something that would be trivial
to fix. The buffer does not have the information to do that.


BR,
Jani.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-03 18:29 [PATCH] emacs: call "notmuch tag" only once when archiving a thread Jani Nikula
2012-01-04 14:13 ` David Edmondson
2012-01-04 14:35 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-01-05 20:10 ` Aaron Ecay
2012-01-05 20:32   ` Jani Nikula
2012-01-05 20:38     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-01-05 20:58       ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2012-01-06 21:31         ` Tomi Ollila
2012-01-09  0:56     ` Aaron Ecay
2012-01-09  1:12       ` Austin Clements
2012-01-09  8:15         ` David Edmondson
2012-01-09  8:41         ` Jani Nikula
2012-01-09 10:38           ` Tomi Ollila
2012-01-09 10:46             ` David Edmondson
2012-01-09 11:31         ` Mark Walters

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