Bad index files.

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Earl R Shannon wrote:

> The stop/start is when this seems to happen. Is it not possible that
> imapd processes are being SIGKILLed and leaving the index files
> in an untenable state?

The "running" index files are never updated directly -- the .NEW files are
written out, and then moved (atomicly via rename()) into place.

-Rob

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