The version number has always been pretty meaningless to the user and
it's about to become even more meaningless with the introduction of
"features". Hopefully, the database will remain on version 3 for some
time to come; however, the introduction of new features over time in
version 3 will necessitate upgrades within version 3. It would be
confusing if we always tell the user they've been "upgraded to version
3". If the user wants to know what's new, they should read the news.
All we do here is calculate the backup filename, and call the existing
dump routine.
Also take the opportunity to add a message about being safe to
interrupt.
Support for dirent.d_type is OS-specific. Previously, we used
_DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE to detect support for this, but this is apparently
a glic-ism (FreeBSD, for example, supports d_type, but does not define
this). Since there's no cross-platform way to detect support for
dirent.d_type, detect it using a test compile at configure time.
The notmuch_new_command() function has grown huge, chop it up a
bit. This should also be helpful when adding a --quiet option to
notmuch new. No functional changes.
Apart from the status codes for format mismatches, the non-zero exit
status codes have been arbitrary. Make the cli consistently return
either EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE.
This allows specifying config file as a top level argument to notmuch,
and generally makes it possible to override config file options in
main(), without having to touch the subcommands.
If the config file does not exist, one will be created for the notmuch
main command and setup and help subcommands. Help is special in this
regard; the config is created just to avoid errors about missing
config, but it will not be saved.
This also makes notmuch config the talloc context for subcommands.
We now have a notmuch_config_is_new() function to query whether a
config was created or not. Change the notmuch_config_open() is_new
parameter into boolean create_new to determine whether the function
should create a new config if one doesn't exist. This reduces the
complexity of the API.
Use the notmuch argument parser to handle arguments in "notmuch
new". As a side effect, this fixes broken STRNCMP_LITERAL usage that
accepts, for example, --verbosefoo for --verbose.
We now test for user ignore patterns before attempting to determine if
a directory entry is itself a directory. As a result, we no longer
abort for broken symlinks if the user has explicitly ignored them.
This fixes the test added in the previous patch. It also slightly
changes the debug output checked by another test of ignores.
Since starting at the top of a directory tree and recursing within
that tree are now identical operations, there's no need for both
add_files and add_files_recursive. This eliminates add_files (which
did nothing more than call add_files_recursive after the previous
patch) and renames add_files_recursive to add_files.
Previously, add_files_recursive could have been called on a symlink to
a non-directory. Hence, calling it on a non-directory was not an
error, so a separate function, add_files, existed to fail loudly in
situations where the path had to be a directory.
With the new stat-ing logic, add_files_recursive is always called on
directories, so the separation of this logic is no longer necessary.
Hence, this patch moves the strict error checking previously done by
add_files into add_files_recursive.
This moves our logic to get a file's type into one function. This has
several benefits: we can support OSes and file systems that do not
provide dirent.d_type or always return DT_UNKNOWN, complex
symlink-handling logic has been replaced by a simple stat fall-through
in one place, and the error message for un-stat-able file is more
accurate (previously, the error always mentioned directories, even
though a broken symlink is not a directory).
Previously, notmuch_database_get_directory did not indicate whether or
not the returned directory object was newly created, which required a
workaround to distinguish newly created directory objects with no
child messages from directory objects that had no mtime set but did
have child messages. Now that notmuch_database_get_directory
distinguishes whether or not the directory object exists in the
database, this workaround is no longer necessary.
Previously, notmuch_database_get_directory had no way to indicate how
it had failed. This changes its prototype to return a status code and
set an out-argument to the retrieved directory, like similar functions
in the library API. This does *not* change its currently broken
behavior of creating directory objects when they don't exist, but it
does document it and paves the way for fixing this. Also, it can now
check for a read-only database and return
NOTMUCH_STATUS_READ_ONLY_DATABASE instead of crashing.
In the interest of atomicity, this also updates calls from the CLI so
that notmuch still compiles.
This is the notmuch_database_create equivalent of the previous change.
In this case, there were places where errors were not being propagated
correctly in notmuch_database_create or in calls to it. These have
been fixed, using the new status value.
It has been a long-standing issue that notmuch_database_open doesn't
return any indication of why it failed. This patch changes its
prototype to return a notmuch_status_t and set an out-argument to the
database itself, like other functions that return both a status and an
object.
In the interest of atomicity, this also updates every use in the CLI
so that notmuch still compiles. Since this patch does not update the
bindings, the Python bindings test fails.
Previously, if we failed to find the message by filename in
remove_filename, we would return immediately from the function without
ending its atomic block. Now this code follows the usual goto DONE
idiom to perform cleanup.
This was going to stdout. I removed the newline at the beginning of
printing the fatal error message because it wouldn't make sense if you
were only looking at the stderr stream (e.g., you had redirected
stdout to /dev/null).
Previously, fatal errors in add_files_recursive were not treated as
fatal by its callers (including itself!). This makes
add_files_recursive errors consistently fatal and updates all callers
to treat them as fatal.
A new configuration key 'new.ignore' is used to determine which
files and directories user wants not to be scanned as new mails.
Mark the corresponding test as no longer broken.
This work merges my previous attempts and Andreas Amann's work
in id:"ylp7hi23mw8.fsf@tyndall.ie"
scandir() returns "strings allocated via malloc(3)" which are then
"collected in array namelist which is allocated via
malloc(3)". Currently we just free the array namelist. Instead, free
all the entries of namelist, and then free namelist.
entry only points to elements of namelist, so we don't free it
separately.
This ignores the results of the two writes in sigint handlers even
harder than before.
While my libc lacks the declarations that trigger these warnings, this
can be tested by adding the following to notmuch.h:
__attribute__((warn_unused_result))
ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
Run notmuch new pre and post hooks, named "pre-new" and "post-new", if
present in the notmuch hooks directory. The hooks will be run before and
after incorporating new messages to the database.
Typical use cases for pre-new and post-new hooks are fetching or delivering
new mail to the maildir, and custom tagging of the mail incorporated to the
database.
Also add command line option --no-hooks to notmuch new to bypass the hooks.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
previously we deleted the subcommand name from argv before passing to
the subcommand. In this version, the deletion is done in the actual
subcommands. Although this causes some duplication of code, it allows
us to be more flexible about how we parse command line arguments in
the subcommand, including possibly using off-the-shelf routines like
getopt_long that expect the name of the command in argv[0].
Previously, the functions notmuch_database_find_message() and
notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename() functions did not properly
report error condition to the library user.
For more information, read the thread on the notmuch mailing list
starting with my mail "id:871uv2unfd.fsf@gmail.com"
Make these functions accept a pointer to 'notmuch_message_t' as argument
and return notmuch_status_t which may be used to check for any error
condition.
restore: Modify for the new notmuch_database_find_message()
new: Modify for the new notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename()
This addresses atomicity of tag synchronization, the last atomicity
problems in notmuch new. Each message add or remove is wrapped in its
own atomic section, so interrupting notmuch new doesn't lose progress.
Because flag synchronization is stateless, it can be performed at any
time as long as it's guaranteed to be performed after any change to a
message's filename list. Take advantage of this to synchronize tags
immediately after a filename is added or removed.
This does not yet make adding or removing a message atomic, but it is
a big step toward atomicity because it reduces the window where the
database tags are inconsistent from nearly the entire notmuch-new to
just around when the message is added or removed.
Previously, file name removal was implemented identically in two
places. Now it's captured in one function.
This is important because file name removal is about to get slightly
more complicated with eager tag synchronization and correct removal
atomicity.
Previously, pointers to these variables were passed around
individually. This was okay when only one function needed them, but
we're about to need them in a few more places.
notmuch_database_t now keeps a nesting count and we only start a
transaction or commit for the outermost atomic section.
Introduces a new error, NOTMUCH_STATUS_UNBALANCED_ATOMIC.
Previously, if notmuch new were interrupted between updating the
directory mtime and handling removals from that directory, a
subsequent notmuch new would not handle those removals until something
else changed in that directory. This defers recording the updated
mtime until after removals are handled to eliminate this problem.
Previously, message removals were always performed, even after a
SIGINT. As a result, when a message was moved from one folder to
another, a SIGINT between processing the directory the message was
removed from and processing the directory it was added to would result
in notmuch removing that message from the database.
Currently, notmuch new assumes any directory with a database mtime of
0 is new, but we don't set the mtime until after processing messages
and subdirectories in that directory. Hence, anything that prevents
the mtime update (such as an interruption or the wall-clock logic
introduced in 8c39e8d6) will cause the next notmuch new to think the
directory is still new.
We work around this by setting the new directory's database mtime to
-1 before scanning anything in the new directory. This also obviates
the need for the workaround used in 8c39e8d6.
This fixes a race where multiple message deliveries in the same second
with an intervening notmuch new could result in messages being ignored
by notmuch (at least, until a later delivery forced a rescan).
Because mtimes only have second granularity, later deliveries in the
same second won't change the directory mtime, and hence won't trigger
notmuch new to rescan the directory. This situation can only occur
when notmuch new is being run at the same second as the directory's
modification time, so simply don't update the saved mtime in this
case.
This very race happens all over the test suite, and is currently
compensated for with increment_mtime (and, occasionally, luck). With
this change, increment_mtime becomes unnecessary.
Various typo fixes in comments within the source code.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Restricted to just
source-code comments, (and fixed fix of "descriptios" to "descriptors"
rather than "descriptions").
gcc (at least as of version 4.6.0) is kind enough to point these out to us,
(when given -Wunused-but-set-variable explicitly or implicitly via -Wunused
or -Wall).
One of these cases was a legitimately unused variable. Two were simply
variables (named ignored) we were assigning only to squelch a warning about
unused function return values. I don't seem to be getting those warnings
even without setting the ignored variable. And the gcc docs. say that the
correct way to squelch that warning is with a cast to (void) anyway.
The most recent commit optimized the implementation of this
function. This commit simply updates the relevant comments to match
the new implementation.
