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Message-ID: <20070212195732.GC5108@nifty>
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:57:33 -0800
From:	Valerie Henson <val_henson@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>,
	val_henson@...ux.interl.com, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks
> > 
> > Just why does not it use mtime then to check for New Mail Arrived, like 
> 
> I have always used:
> 
>   --enable-buffy-size        Use file size attribute instead of access time
> 
> Support was there at least in 1998, maybe before.

Good point.  However, this works for mutt because new mail is an
append-only operation.  Other apps don't have the guarantee that file
modifications that they care about will change the file size.

-VAL
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