From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5440 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Request for "maildir" support Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:28 +0100 Message-ID: <199603042025.VAA04657@durin.uio.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146044 341 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:34:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@smart.ruhr.de (Thomas Neumann), ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA20677 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:55:39 -0800 Original-Received: from mons.uio.no (6089@mons.uio.no [129.240.200.26]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:26:36 +0100 Original-Received: from ulrik.uio.no by mons.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <15899-0@mons.uio.no>; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: by durin.uio.no ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:28 +0100 Original-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) In-reply-to: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5440 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5440 > Fifth, the program _N_F_S_-_w_r_i_t_e_s the mes- > sage to the file. > > If the file is Huge, and Gnus starts reading/moving this file before > it has arrived totally, won't this potentially mean that Gnus might > get an incomplete version of the file. No. Note that the file is written to tmp/. Only when it's complete is it linked into new/. > So I guess it isn't as simple as the manual says to read the "new" > directory. The reader has to check the "cur" directory that the > corresponding file there has been removed before it attempts to deal > with a file in the "new" directory. What corresponding file in cur/? All messages get different filenames. Unless you run the machine clock backwards or have two hosts with the same name. Regards, Hallvard