FastMail Cyrus Patches for upstream
Bron Gondwana
brong at fastmail.fm
Fri Aug 28 01:08:35 EDT 2009
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:45:06AM -0400, Brian Awood wrote:
> > Right - that would be a bug then. I'll poke around the code.
> > Just to confirm - the symptom is copied messages out of
> > order causing the intermediate cache records to be copied
> > as well?
>
> Yeah, one place I noticed a problem was in index_copysetup(), there's
> CACHE_OFFSET(msgno+1) - CACHE_OFFSET(msgno);
> and
> cache_end - CACHE_OFFSET(msgno);
You're quite right! It should just be one case:
copyargs->copymsg[copyargs->nummsg].cache_len =
mailbox_cacherecord_index(mailbox, msgno, 0);
> > Yeah, that's the problem though, because if the copied-back records
> > might have the wrong offsets unless everything was kept in sync
> > properly.
>
> Remember that the index records contain the correct offset, but the
> cache records are "out of order". So doing something like,
> CACHE_OFFSET(msgno+1) - CACHE_OFFSET(msgno)
> returns a negative value. It could also return too large of a value
> if there are UIDs in the expunged state in between msgno+1 and msgno.
> But it looks like using your cache_parserecord() instead should
> correct those issues.
Yep :)
I've rolled that patch back down into my cache parsing updates.
Note I frequently rebase my "fastmail" branch on github, so it's a bit
of a pain to follow! Unfortunately there's really no choice, because
you have to rebase in and our of CVS anyway.
Bron.
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