[mew-int 00944] Re: 4252/+misc/polaris-ios exists. Input a message number :

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

In message [mew-int 00943], on Fri, 28 Jun 2002,
Eric Chen <xjchen at example.com> wrote:

> I have been using Mew for several years.  I always get the error in
> subject line, it happens when I refile the mail, and occurs very
> frequently, almost one of every four times.

Are you using NFS?

Anyway, I've written a patch.  Please try this.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita
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 This patch is written by Tatsuya Kinoshita.  Copyright is disclaimed.

diff -ur mew-2.2.orig/mew-func.el mew-2.2/mew-func.el
--- mew-2.2.orig/mew-func.el	Fri Feb 22 21:05:33 2002
+++ mew-2.2/mew-func.el	Sat Jun 29 11:34:40 2002
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@
       (setq max (1+ max))
       (setq maxfile (int-to-string max))
       (setq maxpath (mew-expand-folder folder maxfile))
-      (when (file-exists-p maxpath)
+      (while (file-exists-p maxpath)
 	;; If NFS is used, readdir() may fail. Emacs 20 does not
 	;; rescan the directory again. So, we need to rescan in
 	;; the Emacs level.
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
 	(setq max (1+ max))
 	(setq maxfile (int-to-string max))
 	(setq maxpath (mew-expand-folder folder maxfile)))
-      (when (get-file-buffer maxpath)
+      (while (get-file-buffer maxpath)
 	;; file not exist but there is a buffer.
 	(setq max (1+ max))
 	(setq maxfile (int-to-string max))