On Sun, 5 August 2007 10:53:54 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:21:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > btw., Mutt does not go boom, i use it myself. It works just fine and > > notices new mails even on a noatime,nodiratime filesystem. > > IIRC, atime is used by mailers and by the shell to detect that new > mail has arrived and report it only once if there are several intances > watching the same mbox. > > I too use mutt and noatime,nodiratime everywhere (same 10 year-old > thinko), and the only side effect is that when I have a new mail, > it is reported in all of my xterms until I read it, clearly something > I can live with (and sometimes it's even desirable). > > In fact, mutt is pretty good at this. It updates atime and ctime itself > as soon as it opens the mbox, so the shell is happy and only reports > "you have mail" afterwards.
For me mutt fails to recognize new mail. And the difference might be this: http://www.google.de/search?q=enable-buffy-size Jörn -- Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. -- Rob Pike - 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/
