On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jym Dyer <j...@econet.org> wrote: > =v= I handle a similar situation like this: do a directory-wide > operation, then record the directory's modification date. Next > time around, check the directory's modification date and skip > the operation if it hasn't changed. In this situation, that way > you would know that the last message hasn't changed since the > previous operation, so you can skip the directory read.
Not sure this will work for all OSs. Modifying code to remember last message number is straight-forward and independent of any file system that may be in use. --ewh
