Re: location of popup helpers question

On Monday 28 September 2009 22:21:48 Rick Stevens wrote:
Uh, doesn't "ls" show the mtime (modify time) by default?

AIUI, reading a file is an access - in fact if you open a text file anywhere
on your computer then close it without any change you will see the timestamp
get updated. That does not mean it has been written to.

So the file
IS being written to in some manner,

No, it does not mean that.

even if the size isn't changing. If
I were to change every occurrence of the digit "4" with "5" in a file
and saved the modified version, the size wouldn't change but the mtime
would.

Irrelevant

I think the OP said that it appeared that the current message number was
being updated. A big message number (5 or 6 digits) would take a while
to require a sixth or seventh digit, thereby changing the file size.

The message numbers are not in that file, so his comment is an impossibility.

This is all a bit off the point, though. kmail seems to work fine for
most people (I'm a Thunderbird user myself, but I'm weird). This may be
a case where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Anne
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