From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:02:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990603080251.A31258@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <990603054646.ZM2687@candle.brasslantern.com>; from Bart Schaefer on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 05:46:46AM +0000
> I was about to gripe about how horribly inefficient this bit of code is,
> when I realized I'd forgotten that the existing support for directories
> is if anything worse. Recursively stat() an entire directory tree??
> Does anyone really make use of this feature?
Yes, people use this.
> Regardless of efficiency, I think it's a bad idea to start including
> support for specific mail delivery formats in the shell. It's one thing
> to get the standard system information about a file and report that the
> file has changed; it's quite another to have knowledge of the internals
> of the file format.
Well, it's MAILPATH, not GENERICFILEPATH. There are a limited number of
mailbox formats that pose significance to the shell.
> Perhaps checkmailpath is a candidate for some kind of loadable module ...
Fair enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-03 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-03 4:00 Clint Adams
1999-06-03 5:46 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-06-03 12:02 ` Clint Adams [this message]
1999-06-03 13:20 ` Oliver Kiddle
1999-06-03 14:08 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-06-03 15:51 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-06-03 15:45 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-06-07 13:45 ` Oliver Kiddle
1999-06-03 19:18 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-06-04 9:48 Sven Wischnowsky
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