[PATCH 00/10] Fix 'notmuch new' atomicity issues

Austin Clements amdragon at mit.edu
Mon Apr 25 21:13:23 PDT 2011


Bump.  Now rebased against current head (with no conflicts) on
atomic-new-v2 (and for-review/atomic-new-v2) at
  http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git/

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
> This patch series modifies notmuch new to perform all operations
> atomically and to perform maildir flag synchronization eagerly.  As a
> result, notmuch new can be interrupted without risking database
> consistency or losing track of messages, but still without losing
> progress in the middle of a big import.  This also paves the way for
> fixing the antisocial locking behavior of notmuch new.
>
> While there are quite a few patches in the series, each one is
> bite-sized and you can see the number of atomicity violations dropping
> with nearly every patch using the test added by the first patch.
>
> On my test machine, these patches have no affect on performance.
>
> These patches are also available on the atomic-new-v1 branch at
>  http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git/
>
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