[notmuch] indexing mail?

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

>>>>> "Olly" == Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> writes:

    Olly> On 2010-01-14, Carl Worth wrote:
    >> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:38:54 +0100, Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com> wrote:
    >>> I am using XFS, which always returns DT_UNKNOWN. Taking into account that
    >>> there is a good deal of people using filesystems other than the ones you
    >>> mention, and that other non-linux filesystems may also return DT_UNKNOWN,
    >>> in my opinion there should be a fall-back. I will try to post a patch
    >>> Anytime Soon=E2=84=A2.
    >> 
    >> We definitely want the fallback. I can attempt to code it, but I don't
    >> have ready access to an afflicted filesystem, so I'd need help testing
    >> anyway.
    >> 
    >> I'd love to see a patch for this bug soon. Be sure to CC me when the
    >> patch is sent and that will help me commit it sooner.

    Olly> Not a full patch, but I already posted what this code should look like
    Olly> to handle both systems without d_type, and those which return DT_UNKNOWN:

    Olly> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/1044

I take a slighly different approach in mu:

/* if the file system does not support entry->d_type, we add it ourselves
 * this is slower (extra stat) but at least it works
 */
static gboolean
_set_dtype (const char* path, struct dirent *entry)
{
	struct stat statbuf;
	char fullpath[4096];
	
	snprintf (fullpath, sizeof(fullpath), "%s%c%s",
		  path, G_DIR_SEPARATOR, entry->d_name);

	if (stat (fullpath, &statbuf) != 0) {
		g_warning ("stat failed on %s: %s", fullpath,
			   strerror(errno));
		return FALSE;
	}

	/* we only care about dirs, regular files and links */
	if (S_ISREG (statbuf.st_mode))
		entry->d_type = DT_REG;
	else if (S_ISDIR (statbuf.st_mode))
		entry->d_type = DT_DIR;
	else if (S_ISLNK (statbuf.st_mode))
		entry->d_type = DT_LNK;
	
	return TRUE;
}


and then in some other places:

/* handle FSs that don't support entry->d_type */
if (entry->d_type == DT_UNKNOWN) 
	_set_dtype (dirname, entry);

	
Note, that is untested as of yet.

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland
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