On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:39 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > There are certain situations where polling is inevitable (such as > > querying hardware for battery status or signal strength, pulling mail, > > that kind of thing). [...] > As for mail pulling: sure. But the frequency should be measured in > minutes and not in micro-seconds. IMAP IDLE (the IMAP server telling connected clients when there is new mail) should be able to fix that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP_IDLE We just have to ensure that our clients and servers support this correctly (and that it is enabled by default). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
