From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
Date: 03 Jun 1999 20:18:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r9ntgkjn.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Thu, 3 Jun 1999 05:46:46 +0000"
"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com> writes:
> 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?
Well, in a limited way, yes. I have procmail deliver to a number of
files in a specific directory, and zsh checks that directory. I'm
sure I'm not that unusual (I think it's a reasonably popular way to
set up Gnus, for example).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-03 20:56 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
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 [this message]
1999-06-04 9:48 Sven Wischnowsky
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