On 2002-07-13, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Georg Lutz wrote: > > > > > > Could you explain me, what gets broken, if I change ctime to mtime in > > this function? > > The purpose of the Trash folder is to retain mail for seven days (by default) > before deleting it. If you change ctime to mtime, and delete a month-old > message, the message will be deleted immediately, instead of seven days later. >
Ah, i thought mtime of files in .Trash is the time when the message get moved in .Trash. > > When atime is reset to the value before the file was backed up, ctime > > gets changed. > > Fix your backup software. It should not be messing around with files. I > back-up stuff daily, and atime stays put. > afbackup operates on regular filesystem entries. It does not dump the entire filesystem, so it does not relay on os-specific restore-tools and files can be preprocessed (compressed etc.) individually. For some unobvious reason the author thinks that atime is a worth information(more than ctime). Since things in .Trash are about to be deleted anyway, i simply exclude such directories from backup. > > In cmlmcleanup.C, function cmdhourly, the atime of files in > > modqueue-directory is checked for remoderation. So even a backup without > > resetting the atime would not be a good solution. > > I may have to change that, but that doesn't affect ctime/mtime. > -- Georg ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
