From: Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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 16:08:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ECF41A96-AEEF-413C-951C-91DCB98735A8@evenmere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h97cu1am.fsf@tethera.net>
> On Nov 12, 2016, at 11:10 AM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> stop deleting things? You can't guarantee termination and indexing of
> all present messages by ignoring deletions either.
That's hard, given dovecot pointed at the same maildir: it quickly moves files from new to cur. That makes notmuch insert pretty useless, and I rely on notmuch new to approach correctness.
But maybe I misunderstand: is the idea that it will return an error but keep processing? Or stop on that error?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-12 21:08 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
2016-11-12 16:15 ` David Bremner
2016-11-12 21:08 ` Brian Sniffen [this message]
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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