On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:04:26 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Here's the reworked patch series that uses atomic sections more
> heavily rather than changing the removal API.  This is atomic-new-v6
> on http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git .

I just caught up implementing find_message_by_filename and
begin|end_atomic

One oddity, since databases are opened in read-only by default, I was
surprise to see find_message_by_filename on such a database have my
python instance crash...

> lib: Add an API to find a message by filename.
>   Culled from "lib: Add API's to find by filename and ..." in the old
>   series.  What I kept is identical.

db.find_message_by_filename("moo")
Internal error: Failure to ensure database is writable
(lib/directory.cc:100).

Outch?
Sebastian