Hey, David
Thanks for resending the patches!
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:34:27AM +0100, David Riebenbauer wrote:
>notmuch-deliver should not just fail, when splice() doesn't work. Fall
>back to the readwrite method even if NOTMUCH_DELIVER_NO_SPLICE is not
>set.
This is a trivial change but I'm rather curious about the reasoning.
Did you have a problem with splice() not working?
>---
> contrib/notmuch-deliver/src/main.c | 10 +++++++---
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/contrib/notmuch-deliver/src/main.c
>b/contrib/notmuch-deliver/src/main.c
>index f7a4eaa..8423d91 100644
>--- a/contrib/notmuch-deliver/src/main.c
>+++ b/contrib/notmuch-deliver/src/main.c
>@@ -252,9 +252,13 @@ save_maildir(int fdin, const char *dir, int auto_create,
>char **path)
>
> g_debug("Reading from standard input and writing to `%s'",
> info.tmpname);
> #ifdef HAVE_SPLICE
>- ret = g_getenv("NOTMUCH_DELIVER_NO_SPLICE")
>- ? save_readwrite(fdin, fdout)
>- : save_splice(fdin, fdout);
>+ if (g_getenv("NOTMUCH_DELIVER_NO_SPLICE"))
>+ ret = save_readwrite(fdin, fdout);
>+ else {
>+ ret = save_splice(fdin, fdout);
>+ if (ret)
>+ ret = save_readwrite(fdin, fdout);
>+ }
I'm inclined to think this retry should be user configurable as well.
How about we remove NOTMUCH_DELIVER_NO_SPLICE environment variable and
add a command line flag like --save-method which may have the following
invocations:
--save-method=readwrite calls save_readwrite()
--save-method=splice calls save_splice()
--save-method=readwrite,splice try save_readwrite() and then splice()
--save-method=splice,readwrite try save_splice and then readwrite()
The second invocation should fail in case splice is not available. Also
adding an environment variable like NOTMUCH_DELIVER_SAVE_METHOD so
people can stick it into their dotfiles is a good idea.
Thoughts?
-alip
> #else
> ret = save_readwrite(fdin, fdout);
> #endif /* HAVE_SPLICE */
>--
>1.7.7.1
>
