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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#45545: marked as done (Mail disappears from inbox) by Carsten Burghardt <cb@magic-shop.de>
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-10 0:18:11
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On Saturday 10 August 2002 00:56, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Can it be that writing to mbox followed by a stat yields mbox(mbox)
> == time(local machine) because the NFS clients caches that
> information instead of querying the NFS server?

This seems to be the case.

> If so, it might help to create a link from mbox.<unique number> to
> mbox and stat this link instead. (I believe you need to use a
> hardlink and not a symlink) The idea is that this forces a round trip
> to the NFS server so that you get the actual mtime of the mbox at the
> server instead of the incorrect cached version.

I'm against adding some ugly workaround for the crappiness of NFS to 
KMail. If the clocks of the machines are in sync there is no problem. 
And synching the clocks in a local network is a pretty standard 
requirement, isn't it? Someone who can setup an NFS server should also 
be able to setup xntpd.

If you want to implement such a super ugly workaround please go ahead.

Regards,
Ingo

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