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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [Patch v5 1/8] test: Add two tests for error output from\r
+ notmuch_database_open\r
+Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:24:04 -0400\r
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+This is arguably testing the same thing twice, but in the brave new\r
+future where we don't use printf anymore, each subcommand will be\r
+responsible for handling the output on it's own.\r
+---\r
+ test/T050-new.sh | 7 +++++++\r
+ test/T150-tagging.sh | 6 ++++++\r
+ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/test/T050-new.sh b/test/T050-new.sh\r
+index 7119356..e6c3291 100755\r
+--- a/test/T050-new.sh\r
++++ b/test/T050-new.sh\r
+@@ -276,4 +276,11 @@ test_expect_code 1 "Invalid tags set exit code" \\r
+ \r
+ notmuch config set new.tags $OLDCONFIG\r
+ \r
++\r
++test_begin_subtest "Xapian exception: read only files"\r
++chmod u-w ${MAIL_DIR}/.notmuch/xapian/*.DB\r
++output=$(NOTMUCH_NEW 2>&1 | sed 's/: .*$//' )\r
++chmod u+w ${MAIL_DIR}/.notmuch/xapian/*.DB\r
++test_expect_equal "$output" "A Xapian exception occurred opening database"\r
++\r
+ test_done\r
+diff --git a/test/T150-tagging.sh b/test/T150-tagging.sh\r
+index 45471ac..4a2673d 100755\r
+--- a/test/T150-tagging.sh\r
++++ b/test/T150-tagging.sh\r
+@@ -261,4 +261,10 @@ test_expect_code 1 "Empty tag names" 'notmuch tag + One'\r
+ \r
+ test_expect_code 1 "Tag name beginning with -" 'notmuch tag +- One'\r
+ \r
++test_begin_subtest "Xapian exception: read only files"\r
++chmod u-w ${MAIL_DIR}/.notmuch/xapian/*.DB\r
++output=$(notmuch tag +something '*' 2>&1 | sed 's/: .*$//' )\r
++chmod u+w ${MAIL_DIR}/.notmuch/xapian/*.DB\r
++test_expect_equal "$output" "A Xapian exception occurred opening database"\r
++\r
+ test_done\r
+-- \r
+2.1.4\r
+\r