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From: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] Add shell script notmuch-retry
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:55:19 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:53:29 -0500, James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org> wrote:
> > Maybe this retry loop should be put in notmuch itself?
> 
> Perhaps it should. I've even imagined something that would queue a
> request into a daemon if the database isn't currently available.
> 
> But of course there are issues about whether the caller would want to
> know about the locking error, (or might actually need to block until the
> operation is complete). So I'm not sure about the right answer here.

--block and/or --queue?