27 Oct
2004
27 Oct
'04
7:59 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Gregory Bond wrote:
Geo Carncross wrote:
P1: opendir(dir1) P1: readdir() P2: rename(dir1/f, dir1/f:2) P1: readdir() <- never sees dir1/f _OR_ dir1/f:2 ...
Fixing this in general is going to need serious kernel hacking is likely to be very hard, and have ugly performance or space tradeoffs.
Hmmm.... dunno if this is acceptable for Maildir, but can you pad the filenames somehow so that the renames never lengthen the filename?
This is not how Maildir works unfortunately.
-- Matthias Andree