From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] Possible problem with maildir ID generation
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240320547-sup-6957@entry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a412e2a70904161505l3e1fdfc9l987013130b3f5ddd@mail.gmail.com>
Reformatted excerpts from Mark Alexander's message of 2009-04-16:
> Consider two messages that arrive in the same second, but the second
> message is smaller than the first. Because the message size makes up
> the low seven (decimal) digits of the ID, the second message, even
> though it arrived later, will have an ID that is less than the first
> message.
I think you could be right. Using the size as part of the ID was
supposed to differentiate messages with the same timestamp, but it would
result in exactly the behavior you describe when polling.
I think there's a much simpler scheme we can use that will also fix
this. I'll post a patch soon and we can see if it addresses the
problem.
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 22:05 Mark Alexander
2009-04-21 14:00 ` William Morgan [this message]
2009-04-21 15:33 ` Mark Alexander
[not found] ` <20090428191822.GB10581@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
2009-04-28 23:29 ` Mark Alexander
2009-04-29 22:31 ` William Morgan
2009-04-29 22:39 ` William Morgan
[not found] ` <20090429233820.GA14143@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
2009-05-04 16:10 ` William Morgan
[not found] ` <20090504165224.GA15815@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
2009-05-04 17:24 ` Mark Alexander
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