Re: mutt and BUFFY_SIZE
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:13:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 24, Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org> wrote:
>
> >> >What are the advantages of --enable-buffysize ?
> >> It's a workaround for some broken systems, I enabled it because some
> >> people asked for it.
> >> Please let me know if this causes any problem.
> >
> >Actually it causes problem with the way I work with mutt: I have two
> >instances open and mailboxes I read in one instance are not marked as
> >read in the other one.
> >
> >Since this is particular to the way I use mutt and I don't know how it
> >behaves on broken system without the option I can't tell it's worth
> >going back to the previous state (if it was only me it would...).
> Can somebody provide more info about what BUFFY_SIZE is supposed to fix?
> Lacking a good argument I will disable it again in the next release,
> because I consider the behaviour explained by Frederic very useful.
It's for filesystems where stat is broken, generally.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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