13 Nov
2007
13 Nov
'07
2:48 p.m.
"M" == Matt lm7812@gmail.com writes:
M> What if the script only touched the dovecot.index if it exists?
M> That would likely not be too difficult to test for with shell
M> script.Might be tricky to do in shell without a race. On the other hand maybe a race in this case is not significant. On the other hand it's possible that a running user imap process uses timestamps on the index file to determine whether it needs to update its idea of the content and gratuitously changing it on connect may cause already running processes to do more work that strictly necessary. Haven't looked at the actual code to asses the credibility of this though.
On the other hand I've run out of hands now :)