Re: [PATCH] emacs: poll: return useful errors when poll fails.

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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: poll: return useful errors when poll fails.\r
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+Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> Previously poll called from emacs would fail silently. This makes it\r
+> return a useful error message.\r
+>\r
+> In the non-deprecated case of notmuch new and appropriate hooks, it\r
+> uses notmuch-call-notmuch-process which gives an error and\r
+> additionally puts the stdout/stderr etc in the *Notmuch errors*\r
+> buffer.\r
+>\r
+> In the deprecated case of a custom poll script it only returns an\r
+> error message.\r
+>\r
+> Commit based on a bug report, and a potential fix, by Ketil Malde.\r
+\r
+applied to release and master\r
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+d\r