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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: talloc_abort in notmuch_thread_get_tags () when db has been
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Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:

> as far as I can see, there is _no_ way to catch this error without
> completely crashing the application. I would have to isolate this code
> in a separate process or trap SIGABRT (which is certainly messy).

I'm not sure what you expect libnotmuch to do here. There's a fatal
"should not happen" error in the memory allocator; it isn't really the
sort of thing one can recover from. It's also not in code we control.

Of course _why_ this error is happening could still be notmuch's
fault. Can you reproduce the problem under valgrind?

d