On Apr 21, 2022, at 1:21 PM, Eric Gillespie <[email protected]> wrote: > > You see, nmh's dirty secret (ok ok, one of many!) is that the > first thing every command does is read the entire directory. > Yep, the whole thing.
If you use any syscall tracer, you will see that this is not what happens. scan & pick will do a directory read only if no messages are specified because the default is all. Otherwise they only touch specified messages.
