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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Re: ClientInterface (was Re: Fwd: [PATCH] kernel / UI
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-07-21 11:51:30
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On Monday 21 July 2003 06:20, Don Sanders wrote:
<snip>
> The second suggestion was to have KMail lock index files only
> briefly. But this would means redesigning KMail so that index files
> are read/written whenever an action takes place. Theoretically
> feasible but basically requiring a rewrite of most of all the non-GUI
> KMail code, and resulting in slow performance when multiple clients
> interleave changes into an index file, requiring both clients to
> continually reparse the index file.
>
> Which is the second problem the updating multiple clients problem.
<snip>

Both problems are solved by CIA/4 (and, if I may remark: more 
efficiently than generating socket traffic).

> On to a new problem, a fourth problem, the lost messages problem.
<snip>

Solved by using CIA/4 and adding the sernum to the index entry.

Marc

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