[Kde-pim] Review Request 113340: fix reading of mbox file when slowly filled by external program

[Kevin Krammer]

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Looks good.
Do you think we could have a unit test for that?


- Kevin Krammer


On Oct. 18, 2013, 8:24 p.m., Martin Koller wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 18, 2013, 8:24 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDEPIM-Libraries.
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> Bugs: 324173
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324173
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> Repository: kdepimlibs
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> Description
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> The mbox resource can watch for file changes.
> When an external program fills the mbox file and this takes some time (e.g. 10 seconds, during which mails get added and added),
> the file watcher triggers indirectly the method MBox::load(), which does as a first step d->initLoad( fileName ); (mainly to set the filename
> so the following lock() call knows what the lockfile shall be).
> But the bug is that the d->initLoad( fileName ) call also stores the current mbox filesize - which is still changing until the lock can be finally made.
> (I'm talking about procmail lockfile). When the external program is finally done, the mbox filesize is larger than what the mbox resource
> has stored in d->mInitialMboxFileSize
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> This patch stores the filesize AFTER the lock could be made.
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> Diffs
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>   kmbox/mbox.cpp 3658bf6 
>   kmbox/mbox_p.cpp b4e323b 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/113340/diff/
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> Testing
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> The following shell script shows the problem (you also need a file "testmail" which contains a mail to be added).
> E.g. make sure the mbox file is empty, the run the script. When the loop is done, kmail will tell you there are 5 new mails, but
> only the first one shows subject, sender, etc.
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> #!/bin/bash
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> num=$RANDOM
> i=0
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> LOCKFILE=~/airsync.mbox.lock
> lockfile -l20 -r5 $LOCKFILE
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]
> then
>   echo "locking error"
>   exit
> fi
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> while (( $i < 5 ))
> do
>   let num++
>   let i++
>   echo "sending mail" $num
>   sed -e "s/<NUMBER>/$num/" testmail >> ~/airsync.mbox
>   ls -l  ~/airsync.mbox*
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>   sleep 3
> done
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> rm -f $LOCKFILE
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Koller
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