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Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support

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From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:02:51 -0400
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In-reply-to: <990603054646.ZM2687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Bart Schaefer on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 05:46:46AM +0000
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> I was about to gripe about how horribly inefficient this bit of code is,
> when I realized I'd forgotten that the existing support for directories
> is if anything worse.  Recursively stat() an entire directory tree??
> Does anyone really make use of this feature?

Yes, people use this.

> Regardless of efficiency, I think it's a bad idea to start including
> support for specific mail delivery formats in the shell.  It's one thing
> to get the standard system information about a file and report that the
> file has changed; it's quite another to have knowledge of the internals
> of the file format.

Well, it's MAILPATH, not GENERICFILEPATH.  There are a limited number of
mailbox formats that pose significance to the shell.

> Perhaps checkmailpath is a candidate for some kind of loadable module ...

Fair enough.

References:
- MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
  - From: Clint Adams
- Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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