From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
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: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:31:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yf662gojz6v.fsf@taco2.nixu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3axamtl.fsf@nikula.org>
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:58:30 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> 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.
Hmm, I currently run 'notmuch new' from command line... I've been thinking
changing that but now knowing this issue I think I'm not going to do that...
> BR,
> Jani.
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-06 21:31 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
2012-01-06 21:31 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
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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