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[VM] VM writes r/o folders
From: |
Julian Bradfield |
Subject: |
[VM] VM writes r/o folders |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:32:43 +0000 |
User-agent: |
slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) |
VM is behaving badly with read-only folders.
If I visit a folder read-only, I don't expect it to be changed and
written back to disk. However, this happens:
(a) If I visit a folder created by my MTA, VM says "upgrading
attributes", and then the folder is modified, and VM writes it
back to disk when I quit. This of course causes corruption if the
MTA is writing new mail at the same time, since they use different
locking mechanisms.
(b) If I visit a virtual read-only folder, and then I change the
attributes of a message (by, say, filing it), the underlying
folder has its attributes changed and gets written when I quit the
virtual folder. I don't think this is right either.
My understanding of a read-only folder is that nothing I do to it
should cause any modification of the disk file.
- [VM] VM writes r/o folders,
Julian Bradfield <=