From 273090c96e3b5c214605decf5a755546116cc9bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:35:50 +0000
Subject: doc: lei-store-format: mail sync section, update IPC

mail_sync.sqlite3 needs to be documented, and brings the IPC
section up-to-date while we're in the area.
---
 Documentation/lei-store-format.pod | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Documentation')

diff --git a/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod b/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod
index 71aa72cb..625c60f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod
+++ b/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ prevent them from being accidentally treated as a v2 inbox.
   $SHARD - Integer starting with 0 based on parallelism
 
   ~/.local/share/lei/store
-  - ipc.lock                        # lock file for internal lei IPC
   - local/$EPOCH.git                # normal bare git repositories
   - mail_sync.sqlite3               # sync state IMAP, Maildir, NNTP
 
@@ -66,11 +65,18 @@ stored in Xapian indices, volatile metadata is associated with
 the Xapian document, thus it is shared across different blobs of
 the "same" message.
 
+=head2 mail_sync.sqlite3
+
+This SQLite database maintained for bidirectional mapping of
+git blobs to IMAP UIDs, Maildir file names, and NNTP article numbers.
+
+It is also used for retrieving messages from Maildirs indexed by
+L<lei-index(1)>.
+
 =head1 IPC
 
-When L<lei(1)> is run in daemon mode, L<flock(2)> is used on
-C<ipc.lock> is used to serialize writes to C<lei/store> across
-multiple internal lei workers while minimizing commits.
+L<lei-daemon(8)> communicates with the C<lei/store> process using
+L<unix(7)> C<SOCK_SEQPACKET> sockets.
 
 =head1 CAVEATS
 
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