Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:04:42PM +0000, David Wright wrote:
| Quoting R. Ransbottom (rir@mediaone.net):
|
| > > on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak (mac@cs.toronto.edu) wrote:
| > > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their
| > > > date/timestamps? Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time
| > > > of all files touched, which causes mutt to lose track of the folders
| > > > which have new mail (I guess it looks at the timestamp last modified
| > > > and last accessed to figure this out). Occasionally I do want to
|
| > - File a bug report on mutt. This is a matter of mutt not playing
| > well with others.
|
| How is mutt (or any other MUA) meant to do it then?
|
By checking the file itself for new messages, rather than relying on
the timestamp. Some MUA's handle new messages in folders better.
(ie, you can open up the mailbox, not read anything, and it still says
new -- mutt doesn't)
All-in-all though it's not such a bad system (for mutt). It probably
solves a lot of headaches with locks and other processes trying to
write to the mbox as mutt reads to determine if something is new or
not.
-D
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