Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-05 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Kari E. Hurtta wrote:" > That is on chapter "Folder and file browser" on file README.ME+ Ecch .. I've just looked at that file. If it has chapters, that's news. It looks like a mess and nothing more. OK! I've now compiled elm with JUST DOTLOCKING, yay, and it no longer ha

Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-05 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Kari E. Hurtta wrote:" > Peter T. Breuer: > > Flags for entry? Asks FOR flags? I'm afraid I don't follow .. what is > > this about flags? And what is an internal directory browser .. elm > > doesn't browse, does

Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-05 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Kari E. Hurtta wrote:" > Peter T. Breuer: > > Yes, statting is precisely the problem. Or more accurately, statting > > all the entries BENEATH all the directories that form initial segments > > of the path to the system mailbox is t

Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-05 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Kari Hurtta wrote:" > Peter T. Breuer: > > IMO it's simply a programming error, and the simplest thing is to > > correct it. Are you saying that this behaviour is _intentional_? What is > > its objective? > > Doing directory

Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-05 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Kari Hurtta wrote:" > Peter T. Breuer: > > oboe:/usr/oboe/ptb% elm > > I can't understand keyword "local-fast-lookup" in line 18 in ".elm/elmrc" > > file > > Fix .elm/elmrc or let elm rebuild elmrc

Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-04 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Kari Hurtta wrote:" > local-fast-lookup = yes Just to confirm, yes that option disables the undesirable directory searching that triggers autofs, at least in elm-me+-2.4pl25ME+95 HOWEVER .. it's not satisfactory. Putting it in elmrc makes earlier

Bug#134742: Spying at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742

2002-06-04 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Hi! "A month of sundays ago Kari Hurtta wrote:" > Spying at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134742&repeatmerged=yes > > | Elm appears to search dirents under every component of the $MAIL path > | with stat64. When some of these components have softlinks pointing into > | an au