Ken Hornstein wrote:
from there, implementing Maildir might be easier than from here. even
IMAP isn't impossible, if we're willing to return a socket descriptor
instead of a file descriptor, or maybe a pipe from a fork, or (gag me) a
temporary file.
Weeeelll ... I think, sadly, that to really make things like IMAP a win
we need to abstract out things a bit more.
that sounds right. however, i'm not sure if you're saying that
abstracting out the POSIX stuff so that it can also handle Maildir is
not a good first correctness-preserving transformation that would set us
up well for a second such transformation once IMAP's semantics and
impedance are better understood, or, if you think there's no point in
doing it in two steps, and we should understand everything before we do
anything. can you elaborate?
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