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Re: [Nmh-workers] Large MH directories
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Large MH directories |
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Sat, 08 Apr 2017 17:32:44 +0100 |
Hi Ken,
> next(1)/prev(1) would NOT, because it would need to know the next
> message number.
One thought, next(1) could speculatively stat(2) `43' and fallback to
readdir(3) if it's not there. It could do N stat()s, e.g. three, before
giving up.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Large MH directories, Ken Hornstein, 2017/04/08