From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>
Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function?
Date: 18 Jul 1997 11:17:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7en8w2xvn.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu's message of "18 Jul 1997 16:22:53 +0200"
Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> writes:
> >>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> 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.
Ah. I hadn't had a problem with symbolic links before, but now I
realize that that was because I never expire messages.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-18 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-18 1:02 Mikael Djurfeldt
1997-07-18 13:51 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1997-07-18 14:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-07-18 15:17 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
[not found] ` <wkn2nk5drp.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-21 8:01 ` SL Baur
1997-07-21 14:53 ` William M. Perry
1997-07-21 16:26 ` Dan Schmidt
[not found] ` <wkn2ng8594.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-22 14:12 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-22 15:44 ` William M. Perry
[not found] ` <wk7mejx7ea.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-23 14:45 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-23 15:19 ` Steve Baumgarten
1997-07-23 15:53 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-07-23 16:17 ` William M. Perry
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