[notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch-new: Fix notmuch new to look at files within symbolic links

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Fri Nov 27 17:29:56 PST 2009


On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:28:24 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> We look at the modified time of the database and the directory
> to decide whether we need to look at only the subdirectories.
> ie, if directory modified time is < database modified time
> then we have already looking at all the files withing the
> directory. So we just need to iterate through the subdirectories
> 
> But with symlinks we need to make sure we follow them even if
> the directory modified time is less than database modified time

Thanks, Aneesh!

I'm sure everyone with symlinks in their mail store is really going to
appreciate this fix. This is now pushed out.

-Carl


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