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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org>
Cc: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cli: consider files vanishing during notmuch new non-fatal
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:10:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h97cu1am.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60C96E28-48D2-4307-A991-A68469733955@evenmere.org>

Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org> writes:

>> 
>> OK, but the patch proposed works both for people who want to be notified
>> of this problem, and those that don't (with appropriate shell wrapping
>> checking the return code).  
>
> I think it will loop; how do I guarantee termination and indexing of all present messages if deletions cause errors?
>
> -Brian

stop deleting things? You can't guarantee termination and indexing of
all present messages by ignoring deletions either.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-12 16:10 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
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 [this message]
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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