Re: "Fixing up" gnus - (how hard is this?).

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> nnmaildir writes its state file frequently, but it is one monolithic
> file per group.  I may move to some form of journaling, but I've got
> other changes to get to first.

One simple thing to do is to always write the state file to a temp
file then do the link/unlink trick to make sure there's always a
coherent copy of the file in place.  This fixes corruption problems,
but not data-lossage.

> User-defined, you mean?  That would be useful indeed.  Obviously, it
> requires cooperation from Gnus, though.

Absolutely.  I tend to feel that gnus' current set of marks is sorta
ad-hoc when considered in the mail context.  While I like the idea of
using the same tool for mail and news, I think that mail does have
some special semantics that ought to be more explicitly accomodated,
and well documented.

Thanks for the responses.
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