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From: Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] lib: catch error from closed db in n_m_get_message_id
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:55:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh89bx3l.fsf@powell.devork.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blkuky7r.fsf@tethera.net>

On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 08:17 -0300, David Bremner wrote:

> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be> writes:
>>
>>> notmuch_database_get_version currently returns and unsigned int and
>>> segfaults on use with a closed db.
>>
>> Yes, the ones without a proper status value are going to be a bit work.
>>
>> In the next series I just posted [1], I started providing status value
>> returning version (see notmuch_message_get_flag_st). We've been through
>> a few of these migrations and it has not been too painful.
>>
>
> I thought of another variation for the boolean valued functions. We
> could embed the boolean values in the notmuch_status_t value by adding
> one or more new status values corresponding to TRUE and FALSE. I'm not
> sure if that would be much simpler, but it would avoid the use of output
> parameters.

This also seems very reasonable.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-30  1:14 introduce exception handling at top level of libnotmuch David Bremner
2020-06-30  1:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] test: add known broken test for error handling on closed database David Bremner
2020-06-30  1:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] lib: catch error from closed db in n_m_get_message_id David Bremner
2020-07-04 15:44   ` Floris Bruynooghe
2020-07-04 17:17     ` David Bremner
2020-07-05 11:17       ` David Bremner
2020-07-08 19:55         ` Floris Bruynooghe [this message]
2020-07-08 19:52       ` Floris Bruynooghe
2020-06-30  1:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] test: add known broken test for n_m_get_thread_id on closed db David Bremner
2020-06-30  1:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] lib/message: catch exception in n_m_get_thread_id David Bremner
2020-07-02 19:16 ` introduce exception handling at top level of libnotmuch Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2020-07-04  0:15   ` David Bremner

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