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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
	Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljhtq98x.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a41dtbu.fsf@59A2.org>

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:39:01 +0100, Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:34:12 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> > I'm a little confused here. Notmuch only uses stat, so it should be
> > looking at the target's mtime already. It actually takes special effort
> > (via lstat) to get at the mtime of the link itself.
> > 
> > So why aren't things just working?
> 
> Because mtime doesn't change on the directory *above* the symlinks.
> 
> I think.

Then I'm still being really dense here. The non-propagation of mtime is
the with actual directories. And the code is trying to do the right
thing for that.

So I still don't see what's being different with the symlinks. I should
probably stop exposing ignorance here on the list, and just sit down
with symlinks in a mail store and see what's happening.

-Carl

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-23 10:49 Notmuch doesn't index new mails Tassilo Horn
2009-11-23 13:55 ` Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks (was: Notmuch doesn't index new mails) Tassilo Horn
2009-11-23 14:02   ` Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks Mikhail Gusarov
2009-11-23 14:43     ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-23 15:01       ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-23 15:10         ` Mikhail Gusarov
2009-11-23 15:16         ` Jed Brown
2009-11-23 15:03       ` Jed Brown
2009-11-23 15:11         ` Mikhail Gusarov
2009-11-26 18:34         ` Carl Worth
2009-11-26 18:39           ` Jed Brown
2009-11-26 21:14             ` Carl Worth [this message]
2009-11-26 21:22               ` Jed Brown

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