From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11712 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function? Date: 18 Jul 1997 16:22:53 +0200 Organization: Ada addicts (see http://ada.eu.org/) Message-ID: References: <199707180102.DAA10308@mdj.nada.kth.se> Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151378 32013 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:02:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA10316 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:27:33 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08258 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:24:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 18478 invoked by uid 504); 18 Jul 1997 14:23:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18475 invoked from network); 18 Jul 1997 14:23:20 -0000 Original-Received: from inf.enst.fr (?AyhX7rgcgi9T9T057i0KGiP+46qjZcwo?@137.194.2.81) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 1997 14:23:20 -0000 Original-Received: from esmeralda.enst.fr (esmeralda.enst.fr [137.194.160.71]) by inf.enst.fr (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA29767; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:23:01 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from tardieu@localhost) by esmeralda.enst.fr (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA10829; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:22:55 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: Mikael Djurfeldt In-Reply-To: Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:02:33 +0200 (MET DST)" Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.61/XEmacs 20.3(beta13) - "Brussels" Precedence: special-delivery X-WWW: http://www-stud.enst.fr/~tardieu/ X-PGP-key: finger -l tardieu@cyclic.com X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11712 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11712 >>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Djurfeldt writes: Mikael> More precisely, will the following setting lead to trouble: Mikael> (setq nnmail-crosspost-link-function 'make-symbolic-link) As directed in the documentation, you should use 'copy-file if you cannot use hardlinks (i.e. 'add-name-to-file). The reason is that if an article is crossposted in two mail-groups with different expiration times and the one with the shortest ex. time is the one containing the original, then you will end up with a symlink pointing to nowhere. Mikael> Please respond via ordinary e-mail. I'm not on this list. Then subscribe :) Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org