From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 12:23:03 CDT
jose.kahan@w3.org (Jose Kahan) writes:
>I noticed that we read the files in find_max_msgnum(), using a call
>to opendir. Regardless of the feature I want to introduce, this seems
>a bit dangerous, as hypermail assumes that the only thing found in the
>directory are its own messages. Why not? This could always be true. I was
It doesn't make that broad an assumption. It only assumes that files
with at least 4 digits, a ".", and set_htmlsuffix (and no other chars)
are its own (with the msgsperfolder option, it also assumes numeric
subdirs are its own).
>wondering why we don't try open one of the index files that has a list of
>all the messages and put there the latest message number? Or just count
>them from the file structure.
There's no guarantee that an index file was ever created. See the
avoid_indices option.
We could probably require one if the gdb file isn't being used, but
I doubt that's worth the effort.
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