Re: merge pick and scan

On Apr 21, 2022, at 1:21 PM, Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> wrote:
> You see, nmh's dirty secret (ok ok, one of many!) is that the
> first thing every command does is read the entire directory.
> Yep, the whole thing.

If you use any syscall tracer, you will see that this is not what
happens. scan & pick will do a directory read only if no messages
are specified because the default is all. Otherwise they only touch
specified messages.