On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks > > > > Just why does not it use mtime then to check for New Mail Arrived, like > > I have always used: > > --enable-buffy-size Use file size attribute instead of access time > > Support was there at least in 1998, maybe before.
Good point. However, this works for mutt because new mail is an append-only operation. Other apps don't have the guarantee that file modifications that they care about will change the file size. -VAL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
