[Dovecot] dovecot.index.cache

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 31 16:29:21 EEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:50 +1000, grant beattie wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:01:03PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > This error is caused by moving from 32bit machine to 64bit machine. The
> > cache file format contains a couple of fields which depend on if Dovecot
> > was compiled as 32bit or 64bit binary. This is a bug and I'll fix it at
> > some point (fix being to delete the cache file)..
> 
> .. or always use the same size fields?
> 
> wouldn't that be less destructive than invalidating all the indexes?

It usually does use the same size fields. I think only time_t is
currently used as-is, which is the problem. Maybe I should just assume
that Dovecot won't be used in 100 years and just keep it 32bit :)

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