Ken wrote: > >> AFAICT, if you reread the sequences file, that will solve that > >> problem. I cannot think of a scenario when it does not; can > >> you think of one that doing that will fail? > > > >Not off hand, but I can't get beyond "merge conflict". > > Maybe you're thinking of it wrong. > > We have message N. For each sequence, there is 1 bit of > information: is it on this sequence?
I think that answers it. We're limited in what we can do with that 1 bit, and the bits are independent. > Now think about nmh operations: do we ever get into a > situation where one command wants to add a message to a > sequence, and another command wants to _remove_ the same > message from the same sequence? That's really the only > possible "merge conflict" we're talking about here. Even that doesn't bother me. All but the last command will lose the race, which is what we always want. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
