This operation is relatively inexpensive, as the needed metadata is
already computed by our lazy metadata fetching. The goal is to support
better UI for messages with multipile files.
The corresponding xapian document just gets more terms added to it,
but this doesn't seem to break anything. Values on the other hand get
overwritten, which is a bit annoying, but arguably it is not worse to
take the values (from, subject, date) from the last file indexed
rather than the first.
This is really pure C string parsing, and doesn't need to be mixed in
with the Xapian/C++ layer. Although not strictly necessary, it also
makes it a bit more natural to call _parse_message_id from multiple
compilation units.
The switch is easier to understand than the side effects in the if
test. It also potentially allows us more flexibility in breaking up
this function into smaller pieces, since passing private_status around
is icky.
'database.cc' is becoming a monster, and it's hard to follow what the
various static functions are used for. It turns out that about 1/3 of
this file notmuch_database_add_message and helper functions not used
by any other function. This commit isolates this code into it's own
file.
Some side effects of this refactoring:
- find_doc_ids becomes the non-static (but still private)
_notmuch_database_find_doc_ids
- a few instances of 'string' have 'std::' prepended, avoiding the
need for 'using namespace std;' in the new file.
We need to rewrite the loop for gmime-3.0; move the loop body to its
own function to avoid code duplication. Keep the common exit via
"goto DONE" to make this pure code movement. It's important to note
that the existing exit path only deallocates the iterator.
We want to reuse the scanner definition with a different table. This
is mainly code movement, and making the state table part of the filter
struct/class.
Commit d5523ead90 ("Mark some structures in the library interface
with visibility=default attribute.") fixed some mixed visibility
issues with structs. With the symbol default visibility reversed, this
is no longer a problem.
The dynamic generation of the linker version script for libnotmuch
exports has grown rather complicated.
Reverse the visibility control by hiding symbols by default using
-fvisibility=hidden, and explicitly exporting symbols in notmuch.h
using #pragma GCC visibility. (We could also use __attribute__
((visibility ("default"))) for each exported function, but the pragma
is more convenient.)
The above is not quite enough alone, as it would "leak" a number of
weak symbols from Xapian and C++ standard library. Combine it with a
small static version script that filters out everything except the
notmuch_* symbols that we explicitly exposed, and the C++ RTTI
typeinfo symbols for exception handling.
Finally, as the symbol hiding test can no longer look at the generated
symbol table, switch the test to parse the functions from notmuch.h.
Commits 9db2145272 ("lib/gen-version-script.h: add getline and
getdelim to notmuch.sym if needed") and 3242e29e57 ("build: add
canonicalize_file_name to symbols exported from libnotmuch.so")
started exporting compat functions from libnotmuch so that the cli
could use them. But we shouldn't export such functions from the
library. They are not part of our ABI. Instead, the cli should include
its own copies of the compat functions.
From a UI perspective this looks similar to what was already provided
for from, subject, and mid, but the implementation is quite
different. It uses the database's list of terms to construct a term
based query equivalent to the passed regular expression.
The index(3) function has been deprecated in POSIX since 2001 and
removed in 2008, and most code in notmuch already calls strchr(3).
This fixes a compilation error on Android whose libc does not have
index(3).
The non-field processor behaviour is is convert the corresponding
queries into a search for the unprefixed terms. This yields pretty
surprising results so I decided to generate a query that would match
the terms (i.e. none with that prefix) generated for an empty header.
The argument is that if the string passed to the field processor has
no spaces, then the added quotes won't have any benefit except for
disabling wildcards. But disabling wildcards doesn't seem very useful
in the normal Xapian query parser, since they're stripped before
generating terms anyway. It does mean that the query 'from:"foo*"' will
not be precisely equivalent to 'from:foo' as it is for the non
field-processor version.
This function was deprecated in notmuch 0.21. We re-use the name for
a status returning version, and deprecate the _st name. One or two
remaining uses of the (removed) non-status returning version fixed at
the same time
This function was deprecated in notmuch 0.21. We finally remove the
deprecated API, and rename the status returning version to the simpler
name. The status returning is kept as a deprecated alias.
Apparently some systems (MacOS?) have a system library called libutil
and the name conflict causes problems. Since this library is quite
notmuch specific, rename it to something less generic.
The object where pointer to `data` was received was deleted before
it was used in _notmuch_string_list_append().
Relevant Coverity messages follow:
3: extract
Assigning: data = std::__cxx11::string(message->doc.()).c_str(),
which extracts wrapped state from temporary of type std::__cxx11::string.
4: dtor_free
The internal representation of temporary of type std::__cxx11::string
is freed by its destructor.
5: use after free:
Wrapper object use after free (WRAPPER_ESCAPE)
Using internal representation of destroyed object local data.
For reasons not completely understood at this time, gmime (as of
2.6.22) is returning a date before 1900 on bad date input. Since this
confuses some other software, we clamp such dates to 0,
i.e. 1970-01-01.
Remove incorrect skipping to first match from init(), and add explicit
skip_to() and check() methods to work around xapian-core bug (the
check() method will also improve speed when filtering by one of
these).
We filter added exclude at add time, rather than modifying the query by
count search. As noted in the comments, there are several ignored
conditions here.
The main goal is to prepare the way for non-destructive (or at least
less destructive) exclude tag handling. It does this by having a
pre-parsed query available for further processing. This also allows us
to provide slightly more precise error messages.
Fix warning caught by clang:
lib/regexp-fields.cc:41:2: warning: 'delete' applied to a pointer that was allocated
with 'new[]'; did you mean 'delete[]'? [-Wmismatched-new-delete]
delete buffer;
^
[]
lib/regexp-fields.cc:37:17: note: allocated with 'new[]' here
char *buffer = new char[len];
^
mid: is the url scheme suggested by URL 2392. We also plan to
introduce more flexible searches for mid: than are possible with
id: (in order not to break assumptions about the special behaviour of
id:, e.g. identifying at most one message).
the idea is that you can run
% notmuch search subject:/<your-favourite-regexp>/
% notmuch search from:/<your-favourite-regexp>/
or
% notmuch search subject:"your usual phrase search"
% notmuch search from:"usual phrase search"
This feature is only available with recent Xapian, specifically
support for field processors is needed.
It should work with bindings, since it extends the query parser.
This is easy to extend for other value slots, but currently the only
value slots are date, message_id, from, subject, and last_mod. Date is
already searchable; message_id is left for a followup commit.
This was originally written by Austin Clements, and ported to Xapian
field processors (from Austin's custom query parser) by yours truly.
The retries are hardcoded to a small number, and error handling aborts
than propagating errors from notmuch_database_reopen. These are both
somewhat justified by the assumption that most things that can go
wrong in Xapian::Database::reopen are rare and fatal. Here's the brief
discussion with Xapian upstream:
24-02-2017 08:12:57 < bremner> any intuition about how likely
Xapian::Database::reopen is to fail? I'm catching a
DatabaseModifiedError somewhere where handling any further errors is
tricky, and wondering about treating a failed reopen as as "the
impossible happened, stopping"
24-02-2017 16:22:34 < olly> bremner: there should not be much scope for
failure - stuff like out of memory or disk errors, which are probably a
good enough excuse to stop
The two g_hash_table functions (insert, add) have different behaviour
with respect to existing keys. g_hash_table_insert frees the new key,
while g_hash_table_add (which is really g_hash_table_replace in
disguise) frees the existing key. With this change 'ref' is live until
the end of the function (assuming single-threaded access to
'hash'). We can't guarantee it will continue to be live in the
future (i.e. there may be a future key duplication) so we copy it with
the allocation context passed to parse_references (in practice this is
the notmuch_message_t object whose parents we are finding).
Thanks to Tomi for the simpler approach to the problem based on
reading the fine glib manual.
Replace multiple tables with some flags in a single table. This makes
the code in notmuch_database_open_verbose a bit shorter, and it should
also make it easier to add other options to fields, e.g. regexp
searching.
From #xapian
olly> bremner: btw, i noticed notmuch count see ms to request all the documents and then ignores them
bremner> hmm. There's something funny about the way that notmuch uses matches in general iirc
olly> it should be able to do: mset = enquire.get_mset (0, 0, notmuch->xapian_db->get_doccount ());
...
olly> get_matches_estimated() will be exact because check_at_least is the size of the database
We already depend on glib both directly and indirectly (via gmime). We
might as well make use of its facilities. Drop the embedded libsha1
and use glib for sha1 digests.
The todo comment got separated from the status it's related to at
commit 3f32fd8a1c ("Add missing comment for
NOTMUCH_STATUS_READONLY_DATABASE."). Later, commit b65ca8e0ba ("lib:
modify notmuch.h for automatic document generation") moved it, but to
the wrong place. Fix the location.
It seems that no-one tried to compile without Xapian compact support
since March of 2015, since that's when I introduced a syntax error in
that branch of the ifdef.
Given the choice of maintaining this underused branch of code, or
bumping the Xapian dependency to a version from 2011, it seems
reasonable to do the latter.
This should not change the SONAME, and therefore won't change the
dynamic linking behaviour, but it may help some users debug missing
symbols in case their libnotmuch is too old.
This is needed so that when the map is modified during traversal, and
thus unlinked by the database code, the map is not disposed of until the
iterator is done with it.
We want to be able to query the properties directly, like:
notmuch count property:foo=bar
which should return a count of messages where the property with key
"foo" has value equal to "bar".
I believe the current one is misleading, because in my experiments
Xapian did not add : when prefix and term were both upper case. Indeed,
it's hard to see how it could, because prefixes are added at a layer
above Xapian in our code. See _notmuch_message_add_term for an example.
Also try to explain why this is a good idea. As far as I can ascertain,
this is more of an issue for a system trying to work with an unknown set
of prefixes. Since notmuch has a fixed set of prefixes, and we can
hopefully be trusted not to add XGOLD and XGOLDEN as prefixes, it is
harder for problems to arise.
_notmuch_database_log clears the log buffer each time. Rather than
introducing more complicated semantics about for this function, provide
a second function that does not clear the buffer. This is mainly a
convenience function for callers constructing complex or multi-line log
messages.
The changes to query.cc are to make sure that the common code path of
the new function is tested.
This support will be present only if the appropriate version of xapian
is available _and_ the user did not disable the feature when
building. So there really needs to be some way for the user to check.
Xapian 1.3 has introduced the DB_RETRY_LOCK flag (Xapian bug
275). Detect it in configure and optionally use it. With this flag
commands that need the write lock will wait for their turn instead of
aborting when it's not immediately available.
Amended by db: allow disabling in configure
Fix bug reported in id:20160606124522.g2y2eazhhrwjsa4h@flatcap.org
Although the C99 standard 6.10 is a little non-obvious on this point,
the docs for e.g. gcc are unambiguous. And indeed in practice with the
extra space, this code fails
#include <stdio.h>
#define foo (x) (x+1)
int main(int argc, char **argv){
printf("%d\n",foo(1));
}
Many of the external links found in the notmuch source can be resolved
using https instead of http. This changeset addresses as many as i
could find, without touching the e-mail corpus or expected outputs
found in tests.
Cleaned the following whitespace in lib/* files:
lib/index.cc: 1 line: trailing whitespace
lib/database.cc 5 lines: 8 spaces at the beginning of line
lib/notmuch-private.h: 4 lines: 8 spaces at the beginning of line
lib/message.cc: 1 line: trailing whitespace
lib/sha1.c: 1 line: empty lines at the end of file
lib/query.cc: 2 lines: 8 spaces at the beginning of line
lib/gen-version-script.sh: 1 line: trailing whitespace
It's already kindof gross that this is hardcoded in two different
places. We will also need these later in field processors calling back
into the query parser.
Since xapian provides the ability to restrict the iterator to a given
prefix, we expose this ability to the user. Otherwise we mimic the other
iterator interfances in notmuch (e.g. tags.c).
This is a thin wrapper around the Xapian metadata API. The job of this
layer is to keep the config key value pairs from colliding with other
metadata by transparently prefixing the keys, along with the usual glue
to provide a C interface.
The split of _get_config into two functions is to allow returning of the
return value with different memory ownership semantics.
To fully complete the ghost-on-removal-when-shared-thread-exists
proposal, we need to clear all ghost messages when the last active
message is removed from a thread.
Amended by db: Remove the last test of T530, as it no longer makes sense
if we are garbage collecting ghost messages.
There is no need to add a ghost message upon deletion if there are no
other active messages in the thread.
Also, if the message being deleted was a ghost already, we can just go
ahead and delete it.
Publicly we are only exposing the non-ghost documents (of "type"
"mail"). But internally we might want to inspect the ghost messages
as well.
This changeset adds two new private interfaces to queries to recover
information about alternate document types.
implement ghost-on-removal, the solution to T590-thread-breakage.sh
that just adds a ghost message after removing each message.
It leaks information about whether we've ever seen a given message id,
but it's a fairly simple implementation.
Note that _resolve_message_id_to_thread_id already introduces new
message_ids to the database, so i think just searching for a given
message ID may introduce the same metadata leakage.
The code to skip multiple slashes in _notmuch_database_split_path()
skips back one character too much. This is compensated by a +1 in the
length parameter to the strndup() call. Mostly this works fine, but if
the path is to a file under a top level directory with one character
long name, the directory part is mistaken to be part of the file name
(slash == path in code). The returned directory name will be the empty
string and the basename will be the full path, breaking the indexing
logic in notmuch new.
Fix the multiple slash skipping to keep the slash variable pointing at
the last slash, and adjust strndup() accordingly.
The bug was introduced in
commit e890b0cf40
Author: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Sat Dec 19 13:20:26 2009 -0800
database: Store the parent ID for each directory document.
just a little over two months after the initial commit in the Notmuch
code history, making this the longest living bug in Notmuch to date.
Some compilers (older than gcc 4.5 and clang 2.9) do support
__attribute__ ((deprecated)) but not
__attribute__ ((deprecated("message"))).
Check if clang version is at least 3.0, or gcc version
is at least 4.5 to define NOTMUCH_DEPRECATED as the
latter variant above. Otherwise define NOTMUCH_DEPRECATED
as the former variant above.
For a bit simpler implementation clang 2.9 is not included
to use the newer variant. It is just one release, and the
older one works fine. Clang 3.0 was released around 2011-11
and gcc 5.1 2015-04-22 (therefore newer macro for gcc 4.5+)
We can't (but currently do) allow upgrades within transactions because
upgrades need their own transactions. We don't want to re-use the
current transaction because bailing out of an upgrade would mean loosing
all previous changes (because our "atomic" transactions don't commit
before hand). This gives us two options:
1. Fail at the beginning of upgrade (tell the user to end the
transaction, upgrade, and start over).
2. Don't allow the user to start the transaction.
I went with the latter because:
1. There is no reason to call `begin_atomic` unless you intend to to
write to the database and anyone intending to write to the database
should upgrade it first.
2. This means that nothing inside an atomic transaction can ever fail
with NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED.
Per RFC 2183, the values for Content-Disposition values are not
case-sensitive. While at it, use the gmime function for getting at the
disposition string instead of referencing the field directly.
This fixes "attachment" tagging and filename term generation for
attachments while indexing.
Although I think it's a pretty bad idea to continue using the old API,
this allows both a more gentle transition for clients of the library,
and allows us to break one monolithic change into a series
It doesn't seem likely we can support simple date:<expr> expanding to
date:<expr>..<expr> any time soon. (This can be done with a future
version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.) In the mean
time, provide shorthand date:<expr>..! to mean the same. This is
useful, as the expansion takes place before interpetation, and we can
use, for example, date:yesterday..! to match from beginning of
yesterday to end of yesterday.
Idea from Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>.
These functions are all just accessors, and it's pretty clear they don't
modify the query struct. This also fixes one warning I created when I
introduced status.c.
This exposes the committed database revision to library users along
with a UUID that can be used to detect when revision numbers are no
longer comparable (e.g., because the database has been replaced).
This adds a new document value that stores the revision of the last
modification to message metadata, where the revision number increases
monotonically with each database commit.
An alternative would be to store the wall-clock time of the last
modification of each message. In principle this is simpler and has
the advantage that any process can determine the current timestamp
without support from libnotmuch. However, even assuming a computer's
clock never goes backward and ignoring clock skew in networked
environments, this has a fatal flaw. Xapian uses (optimistic)
snapshot isolation, which means reads can be concurrent with writes.
Given this, consider the following time line with a write and two read
transactions:
write |-X-A--------------|
read 1 |---B---|
read 2 |---|
The write transaction modifies message X and records the wall-clock
time of the modification at A. The writer hangs around for a while
and later commits its change. Read 1 is concurrent with the write, so
it doesn't see the change to X. It does some query and records the
wall-clock time of its results at B. Transaction read 2 later starts
after the write commits and queries for changes since wall-clock time
B (say the reads are performing an incremental backup). Even though
read 1 could not see the change to X, read 2 is told (correctly) that
X has not changed since B, the time of the last read. In fact, X
changed before wall-clock time A, but the change was not visible until
*after* wall-clock time B, so read 2 misses the change to X.
This is tricky to solve in full-blown snapshot isolation, but because
Xapian serializes writes, we can use a simple, monotonically
increasing database revision number. Furthermore, maintaining this
revision number requires no more IO than a wall-clock time solution
because Xapian already maintains statistics on the upper (and lower)
bound of each value stream.
- Make lib/notmuch.h the canonical location for the library versioning
information.
- Since the release-check should never fail now, remove it to reduce
complexity.
- Make the version numbers in notmuch.h consistent with the (now
deleted) ones in lib/Makefile.local
The CLI (and bindings) code should really be updated to use the new
status-code-returning versions. Here are some warnings to prod us (and
other clients) to do so.
Previously, we updated the database copy of a message on every call to
_notmuch_message_sync, even if nothing had changed. In particular,
this always happens on a thaw, so a freeze/thaw pair with no
modifications between still caused a database update.
We only modify message documents in a handful of places, so keep track
of whether the document has been modified and only sync it when
necessary. This will be particularly important when we add message
revision tracking.
It turns out that on certain systems like FreeBSD, c++filt is not
installed by default. It's basically OK if we fail the build in that
case, but what's really not OK is for the build to continue and
generate bad binaries.
There are many places in the notmuch code where the path is assumed to be absolute. If someone (TM) wants a project, one could remove these assumptions. In the mean time, prevent users from shooting themselves in the foot.
Update test suite mark tests for this error as no longer broken, and
also convert some tests that used relative paths for nonexistent
directories.
The difference with FILE_ERROR is that this is for things that are
wrong with the path before looking at the disk.
Add some 3 tests; two broken as a reminder to actually use this new
code.
You may wonder why _notmuch_message_file_open_ctx has two parameters.
This is because we need sometime to use a ctx which is a
notmuch_message_t. While we could get the database from this, there is
no easy way in C to tell type we are getting.
This is not supposed to change any functionality from an end user
point of view. Note that it will eliminate some output to stderr. The
query debugging output is left as is; it doesn't really fit with the
current primitive logging model. The remaining "bad" fprintf will need
an internal API change.
The compatibility wrapper ensures that clients calling
notmuch_database_open will receive consistent output for now.
The changes to notmuch-{new,search} and test/symbol-test are just to
make the test suite pass.
The use of IGNORE_RESULT is justified by two things. 1) I don't know
what else to do. 2) asprintf guarantees the output string is NULL if
an error occurs, so at least we are not passing garbage back.
The default is actually exact if no checkatleast parameter is
specified. This change makes that explicit, mainly for documentation,
but also to be safe in the unlikely event of a change of default.
[ commit message rewritten by db based on id:87lho0nlkk.fsf@nikula.org
]
The install_name of libnotmuch.dylib on Mac OS X is what is written
into a program that links against it. If it is just the name of the
shared library file, as opposed to the full path, the program won't be
able to find it when it runs and will abort. Instead, the install_name
should be the full path to the shared library (in its final installed
location).
Why does Notmuch work without this patch when installed via Homebrew?
The answer is twofold. One, /usr/local/lib is a special location in
which the dynamic linker will look by default to find shared libraries.
Homebrew highly recommends installing to /usr/local, and, assuming it
has been configured this way, the Notmuch library will end up installed
in /usr/local/lib, and the dynamic linker will find it. Two, Homebrew
globally corrects all install names in dynamically shared libraries and
binaries for each package it installs. So, even if the install names in
a package's binaries and libraries are incorrect, Homebrew corrects them
automatically, and no one ever knows.
Why does Notmuch work without this patch when installed via MacPorts?
The answer is that MacPorts applies a patch just like this patch to fix
the same problem.
This indicates upwardly compatible changes, namely adding new symbols.
Although we don't formally need to do this until the next release,
there is no hard in doing it now, as long as we don't bump the minor
version for every addition between now and the release.
This at least allows distinguishing between out of memory and Xapian
exceptions. Adding finer grained status codes would allow different
Xapian exceptions to be preserved.
Adding wrappers allows people to transition gradually to the new API,
at the cost of bloating the library API a bit.
This adds the indexing support for the "mimetype:" term and removes
the broken test flag. The indexing is probablistic in Xapian terms,
which gives a better experience to end users. Standard content-types
of the form "foo/bar" are automatically interpreted as phrases in
Xapian due to the embedded slash.
Assume, separate messages with application/pdf and application/x-pdf
are indexed, then:
- mimetype:application/x-pdf will find only the application/x-pdf
- mimetype:application/pdf will find only the application/pdf
- mimetype:pdf will find both of the messages
This feature will exist in all newly created databases, but there is
no upgrade provided for it. If this flag exists, it indicates that
the database was created after the indexed MIME-types feature was
added.
_thread_set_subject_from_message sometimes replaces the subject, making the
cur_subject point to free'd memory
==6550== ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x601a0000bec0 at pc 0x4464a4 bp 0x7fffa40be910 sp 0x7fffa40be908
READ of size 1 at 0x601a0000bec0 thread T0
#0 0x4464a3 in _thread_add_matched_message /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/lib/thread.cc:369
#1 0x443c2c in notmuch_threads_get /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/lib/query.cc:496
#2 0x41d947 in do_search_threads /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/notmuch-search.c:131
#3 0x40a3fe in main /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/notmuch.c:345
#4 0x7f4e535b4ec4 in __libc_start_main /build/buildd/eglibc-2.19/csu/libc-start.c:287
#5 0x40abe6 in _start ??:?
0x601a0000bec0 is located 96 bytes inside of 134-byte region [0x601a0000be60,0x601a0000bee6)
freed by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f4e54e6933a in __interceptor_free ??:?
#1 0x7f4e54482fab in _talloc_free ??:?
previously allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f4e54e6941a in malloc ??:?
#1 0x7f4e54485b5d in talloc_strdup ??:?
==22884== ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x601600008291 at pc 0x7ff6295680e5 bp 0x7fff4ab9aa40 sp 0x7fff4ab9aa08
READ of size 1 at 0x601600008291 thread T0
#0 0x7ff6295680e4 in __interceptor_strcmp ??:?
#1 0x44763b in _thread_add_message /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/lib/thread.cc:255
#2 0x4459e8 in notmuch_threads_get /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/lib/query.cc:496
#3 0x41e2a7 in do_search_threads /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/notmuch-search.c:131
#4 0x40a408 in main /home/todd/.apps/notmuch/notmuch.c:345
#5 0x7ff627cb9ec4 in __libc_start_main /build/buildd/eglibc-2.19/csu/libc-start.c:287
#6 0x40abf3 in _start ??:?
0x601600008291 is located 0 bytes to the right of 97-byte region [0x601600008230,0x601600008291)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7ff62956e41a in malloc ??:?
#1 0x7ff628b8ab5d in talloc_strdup ??:?
Currently the thread is named based on either the oldest or newest
matching message (depending on the search order). If this message has
an empty subject, though, the thread will show up with an empty
subject in the search results. (See the thread starting with
`id:1412371140-21051-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net` for an
example.)
This changes the behavior so it will use a non-empty name for the
thread if possible. We name threads based on (a) non-empty matches for
the query, and (b) the search order. If the search order is
oldest-first (as in the default inbox) it chooses the oldest matching
non-empty message as the subject. If the search order is newest-first
it chooses the newest one.
Tamas Szakaly points out [1] that the bug fixed in 51b073c still
exists in at least one place. This change follows the suggestion of
[2] and creates a block scope temporary std::string to avoid the rules
of iterators temporaries.
[1]: id:20141226113755.GA64154@pamparam
[2]: id:20141226230655.GA41992@pamparam
We generally do not support mbox files, but for historical reasons
we've supported single-message mbox files, with a deprecation
message. We've tried dropping the support altogether, but backed out
of it because we'd need to stop indexing them, while keeping support
for previously indexed files. This would be more complicated than
simply supporting single-message mbox files. Therefore, drop the
deprecation message, and just silently accept single-message mboxes.
Currently, if a From-header is of the form:
"" <address@example.com>
the empty string will be treated as a valid real-name, and the entry
in the search results will be empty.
The new behavior here is that we treat an empty real-name field as if
it were null, so that the email address will be used in the search
results instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
Previously, it was necessary to link new messages to children to work
around some (though not all) problems with the old metadata-based
approach to stored thread IDs. With ghost messages, this is no longer
necessary, so don't bother with child linking when ghost messages are
in use.
This updates the thread linking code to use ghost messages instead of
user metadata to link messages into threads.
In contrast with the old approach, this is actually correct.
Previously, thread merging updated only the thread IDs of message
documents, not thread IDs stored in user metadata. As originally
diagnosed by Mark Walters [1] and as demonstrated by the broken
T260-thread-order test, this can cause notmuch to fail to link
messages even though they're in the same thread. In principle the old
approach could have been fixed by updating the user metadata thread
IDs as well, but these are not indexed and hence this would have
required a full scan of all stored thread IDs. Ghost messages solve
this problem naturally by reusing the exact same thread ID and message
ID representation and indexing as regular messages.
Furthermore, thanks to this greater symmetry, ghost messages are also
algorithmically simpler. We continue to support the old user metadata
format, so this patch can't delete any code, but when we do remove
support for the old format, several functions can simply be deleted.
[1] id:8738h7kv2q.fsf@qmul.ac.uk
This updates the message abstraction to support ghost messages: it
adds a message flag that distinguishes regular messages from ghost
messages, and an internal function for initializing a newly created
(blank) message as a ghost message.
In the interest of robustness, avoid undefined behavior of
sortable_unserialise if the date value is missing. This shouldn't
happen now, but ghost messages will have blank date values.
This moves the code to retrieve and clear the metadata thread ID out
of _notmuch_database_link_message into its own function. This will
simplify future changes.
Previously, this was performed by notmuch_database_add_message. This
happens to be the only caller currently (which is why this was safe),
but we're about to introduce more callers, and it makes more sense to
put responsibility for ID compression in the lower-level function
rather than requiring each caller to handle it.
In Xapian, closing a database implicitly aborts any outstanding
transaction and commits changes. For historical reasons,
notmuch_database_close had grown to almost, but not quite duplicate
this behavior. Before closing the database, it would explicitly (and
unnecessarily) commit it. However, if there was an outstanding
transaction (ie atomic section), commit would throw a Xapian
exception, which notmuch_database_close would unnecessarily print to
stderr, even though notmuch_database_close would ultimately abort the
transaction anyway when it called close.
This patch simplifies notmuch_database_close to explicitly abort any
outstanding transaction and then just call Database::close. This
works for both read-only and read/write databases, takes care of
committing changes, unifies the exception handling path, and codifies
aborting outstanding transactions. This is currently the only way to
abort an atomic section (and may remain so, since it would be
difficult to roll back things we may have cached from rolled-back
modifications).
as stated in thread.cc:115
/* Construct an authors string from matched_authors_array and
* authors_array. The string contains matched authors first, then
* non-matched authors (with the two groups separated by '|'). Within
* each group, authors are listed in date order. */
this is, however, not reflected in the public API documentation in
notmuch.h:970. This patch a paragraph explaining how | separates the
group of authors of messages matching the query and those of messages
that do not, but are still contained in the thread.
48db8c8 introduced a disagreement between when
notmuch_database_needs_upgrade returned TRUE and when
notmuch_database_upgrade actually performed an upgrade. As a result,
if a database had a version less than 3, but no new features were
required, notmuch new would call notmuch_database_upgrade to perform
an upgrade, but notmuch_database_upgrade would return immediately
without updating the database version. Hence, the next notmuch new
would do the same, and so on.
Fix this by ensuring that the upgrade-required logic is identical
between the two.
Previously, there was no protection against a caller invoking an
operation on an old database version that would effectively corrupt
the database by treating it like a newer version.
According to notmuch.h, any caller that opens the database in
read/write mode is supposed to check if the database needs upgrading
and perform an upgrade if it does. This would protect against this,
but nobody (even the CLI) actually does this.
However, with features, it's easy to protect against incompatible
operations on a fine-grained basis. This lightweight change allows
callers to safely operate on old database versions, while preventing
specific operations that would corrupt the database with an
informative error message.
Commit 567bcbc2 introduced support for storing various headers in
document values. However, doing so in a backwards-compatible way
meant that genuinely empty header values could not be distinguished
from the old behavior of not storing the headers at all, so these
required parsing the original message.
Now that we have database features, new databases can declare that all
messages have header values, so if we have this feature flag, we can
use the stored header value even if it's the empty string.
This requires slight cleanup to notmuch_message_get_header, since the
code previously couldn't distinguish between empty headers and headers
that are never stored in the database (previously this distinction
didn't matter).
Previously, some parts of upgrade didn't report progress and for
others it was possible for the progress meter to restart at 0 part way
through the upgrade because each stage was reported separately.
Fix this by computing the total amount of work that needs to be done
up-front and updating completed work monotonically.
Rather than potentially making multiple passes over the same type of
data in the database, reorganize upgrade around each type of data that
may be upgraded. This eliminates code duplication, will make
multi-version upgrades faster, and will let us improve progress
reporting.
Previously, we had database version information hard-coded in the
upgrade code. Slightly re-organize the upgrade process around the set
of new database features to be enabled by the upgrade.
Previously, the upgrade was organized as two passes -- an upgrade
pass, and a separate cleanup pass -- so the database was always in a
valid state. This change substantially simplifies this code by
performing the upgrade in a transaction and combining both passes in
to one. This 1) eliminates a lot of duplicate code between the
passes, 2) speeds up the upgrade process, 3) makes progress reporting
more accurate, 4) eliminates the potential for stale data if the
upgrade is interrupted during the cleanup pass, and 5) makes it easier
to reason about the safety of the upgrade code.
Previously, our database schema was versioned by a single number.
Each database schema change had to occur "atomically" in Notmuch's
development history: before some commit, Notmuch used version N, after
that commit, it used version N+1. Hence, each new schema version
could introduce only one change, the task of developing a schema
change fell on a single person, and it all had to happen and be
perfect in a single commit series. This made introducing a new schema
version hard. We've seen only two schema changes in the history of
Notmuch.
This commit introduces database schema version 3; hopefully the last
schema version we'll need for a while. With this version, we switch
from a single version number to "features": a set of named,
independent aspects of the database schema.
Features should make backwards compatibility easier. For many things,
it should be easy to support databases both with and without a
feature, which will allow us to make upgrades optional and will enable
"unstable" features that can be developed and tested over time.
Features also make forwards compatibility easier. The features
recorded in a database include "compatibility flags," which can
indicate to an older version of Notmuch when it must support a given
feature to open the database for read or for write. This lets us
replace the old vague "I don't recognize this version, so something
might go wrong, but I promise to try my best" warnings upon opening a
database with an unknown version with precise errors. If a database
is safe to open for read/write despite unknown features, an older
version will know that and issue no message at all. If the database
is not safe to open for read/write because of unknown features, an
older version will know that, too, and can tell the user exactly which
required features it lacks support for.
According to RFC2822 References and In-Reply-To headers are supposed
to contain one or more Message-IDs, however older RFC822 allowed
almost any content. When both References and In-Reply-To headers ends
with something else that a Message-ID (see e.g. [1]), the thread
structure presented by notmuch is incorrect. The reason is that
notmuch treats this case as if the email contained no "replyto"
information (see _notmuch_database_link_message_to_parents).
This patch changes the parse_references() function to return the last
valid Message-ID encountered rather than NULL resulting from the last
hunk of text not being the Message-ID.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/headers/2014/5/19/864
Previously, we invalidated stored message metadata in
_notmuch_message_add_term and _notmuch_message_remove_term, but not in
_notmuch_message_gen_terms. This doesn't currently result in any bugs
because of our limited uses of _notmuch_message_gen_terms, but it may
could cause trouble in the future.
As noted in devel/STYLE, every private library function should start
with _notmuch. This patch corrects function naming that did not adhere
to this style in lib/notmuch-private.h. In particular, the old function
names that now begin with _notmuch are
notmuch_sha1_of_file
notmuch_sha1_of_string
notmuch_message_file_close
notmuch_message_file_get_header
notmuch_message_file_open
notmuch_message_get_author
notmuch_message_set_author
Signed-off-by: Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu>
notmuch_database_close may fail in Xapian ->flush() or ->close(), so
report the status. Similarly for notmuch_database_destroy which calls
close.
This is required for notmuch insert to report error status if message
indexing failed.
This adds a 100 termpos gap between all phrases indexed by
_notmuch_message_gen_terms. This fixes a bug where terms from the end
of one header and the beginning of another header could match together
in a single phrase and a separate bug where term positions of
un-prefixed terms overlapped.
This fix only affects newly indexed messages. Messages that are
already indexed won't benefit from this fix without re-indexing, but
the fix won't make things any worse for existing messages.
Previously, we indexed the name and address parts of from/to headers
with two calls to _notmuch_message_gen_terms. In general, this
indicates that these parts are separate phrases. However, because of
an implementation quirk, the two calls to _notmuch_message_gen_terms
generated adjacent term positions for the prefixed terms, which
happens to be the right thing to do in this case, but the wrong thing
to do for all other calls. Furthermore, _notmuch_message_gen_terms
produced potentially overlapping term positions for the un-prefixed
copies of the terms, which is simply wrong.
This change indexes both the name and address in a single call to
_notmuch_message_gen_terms, indicating that they should be part of a
single phrase. This masks the problem with the un-prefixed terms
(fixing the two known-broken tests) and puts us in a position to fix
the unintentionally phrases generated by other calls to
_notmuch_message_gen_terms.
This is effectively a revert of
commit 6812136bf5
Author: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Date: Mon Mar 31 00:21:48 2014 +0300
lib: drop support for single-message mbox files
The intention was to drop support for indexing new single-message mbox
files (and whether that was a good idea in the first place is
arguable). However this inadvertently broke support for reading
headers from previously indexed single-message mbox files, which is
far worse.
Distinguishing between the two cases would require more code than
simply bringing back support for single-message mbox files.
The notmuch library includes a full blown message header parser. Yet
the same message headers are parsed by gmime during indexing. Switch
to gmime parsing completely.
These are the main changes:
* Gmime stops header parsing at the first invalid header, and presumes
the message body starts from there. The current parser is quite
liberal in accepting broken headers. The change means we will be
much pickier about accepting invalid messages.
* The current parser converts tabs used in header folding to
spaces. Gmime preserve the tabs. Due to a broken python library used
in mailman, there are plenty of mailing lists that produce headers
with tabs in header folding, and we'll see plenty of tabs. (This
change has been mitigated in preparatory patches.)
* For pure header parsing, the current parser is likely faster than
gmime, which parses the whole message rather than just the
headers. Since we parse the message and its headers using gmime for
indexing anyway, this avoids and extra header parsing round when
adding new messages. In case of duplicate messages, we'll end up
parsing the full message although just headers would be
sufficient. All in all this should still speed up 'notmuch new'.
* Calls to notmuch_message_get_header() may be slightly slower than
previously for headers that are not indexed in the database, due to
parsing of the whole message. Within the notmuch code base, notmuch
reply is the only such user.
We've supported mbox files containing a single message for historical
reasons, but the support has been deprecated, with a warning message
while indexing, since Notmuch 0.15. Finally drop the support, and
consider all mbox files non-email.
In xapian terms, convert folder: prefix from probabilistic to boolean
prefix, matching the paths, relative from the maildir root, of the
message files, ignoring the maildir new and cur leaf directories.
folder:foo matches all message files in foo, foo/new, and foo/cur.
folder:foo/new does *not* match message files in foo/new.
folder:"" matches all message files in the top level maildir and its
new and cur subdirectories.
This change constitutes a database change: bump the database version
and add database upgrade support for folder: terms. The upgrade also
adds path: terms.
Finally, fix the folder search test for literal folder: search, as
some of the folder: matching capabilities are lost in the
probabilistic to boolean prefix change.
The path: prefix is a literal boolean prefix matching the paths,
relative from the maildir root, of the message files.
path:foo matches all message files in foo (but not in foo/new or
foo/cur).
path:foo/new matches all message files in foo/new.
path:"" matches all message files in the top level maildir.
path:foo/** matches all message files in foo and recursively in all
subdirectories of foo.
path:** matches all message files recursively, i.e. all messages.
Clarify that using the directory after destroying the corresponding
database is not permitted.
This is implicit in the description of notmuch_database_destroy, but
it doesn't hurt to be explicit, and we do express similar "ownership"
relationships at other places in the docs.
Currently if a Xapian exception happens in notmuch_message_get_header,
the exception is not caught leading to crash. In
notmuch_message_get_date the exception is caught, but an internal error
is raised, again leading to crash.
This patch fixes the error handling by making both functions catch the
Xapian exceptions, print an error and return NULL or 0.
The 'notmuch->exception_reported' is also set, as is done elsewhere,
even if I don't really get the idea of that field.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@iki.fi>
With some combination of clang and talloc, not using the return value
of talloc_steal() produces a warning. Ignore it, as talloc_steal() has
no failure modes per documentation.
This version of the library introduces LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION and
the *_VERSION macros. Bumping the version number is also necessary to
make the comment on LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION no longer a lie.
This makes it clear that these macros refer to the *library* version,
and not to the notmuch application-level release. Since there are no
consumers of these macros yet, this is now or never.
We have two distinct "library version" numbers: the soname version and
the version macros. We need both for different reasons: the version
macros enable easy compile-time version detection (and conditional
compilation), while the soname version enables runtime version
detection (which includes the version checking done by things like the
Python bindings).
However, currently, these two version numbers are different, which is
unnecessary and can lead to confusion (especially in things like
Debian, which include the soname version in the package name). This
patch makes them the same by bumping the version macros up to agree
with the soname version.
(We should probably keep the version number in just one place so they
can't get out of sync, but that can be done in another patch.)
Unfortunately old versions of GCC and clang do not provide byte order
macros, so we re-invent them.
If UTIL_BYTE_ORDER is not defined or defined to 0, we fall back to
macros supported by recent versions of GCC and clang
Previously PLATFORM_BYTE_ORDER and IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN were not defined,
so the little endian code was always compiled in.
This will have the effect that the "SHA1s" on big endian architectures
will change (i.e. become actual sha1s). So someone re-indexing their
database could conceivable lose tags on messages without a message-id
header.
