Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:49:23 +0300
From: Greg Minshall <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <814300.1677739763@archlinux>
| bash archlinux (master): {49603} ls -a 74600607886815/
That would do it.
| and, i guess, flist decided that
| (under the ~/Mail/MHE-INDEX folder) was a message number?
|
| does that make sense?
yes.
| i guess mh-e could not create such subfolders
| with names consisting only of decimal integers (i have some
| hexadecimal-named folders which don't seem to give a problem).
That, or have the index put in some tree outside your mh mail tree.
| or, i could not search for such.
That sounds a bit draconian
| or, maybe flist (or, nmh in general?) could
| not think that a directory was a message?
On a standard system that would require a stat of every potential
message number named like directory entry. If that was to be done
flist would need to be renamed to be slist instead.
On filesystems that support d_type in the directory entries it would
be possible, but would need the stat() fallback whenever it sees
DT_UNKNOWN which on many systems is lukely to be always.
Better would be to fix mhe to always add a 1 char non-numeric
prefix to directories it creates (perhaps '_', even ' '), and then
there is no confusion any more.
kre
