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+From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
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+Subject: [PATCH 07/17] nmbug-status: Don't require write access\r
+Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 02:59:25 -0800\r
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+The database in only used for notmuch.Query, so there's no need for\r
+write access. This allows nmbug-status to run while the database is\r
+being updated, without raising:\r
+\r
+ A Xapian exception occurred opening database: Unable to get write lock on …: already locked\r
+ Traceback (most recent call last):\r
+ File "./nmbug-status", line 182, in <module>\r
+ db = notmuch.Database(mode=notmuch.Database.MODE.READ_WRITE)\r
+ File "/…/notmuch/database.py", line 154, in __init__\r
+ self.open(path, mode)\r
+ File "/…/notmuch/database.py", line 214, in open\r
+ raise NotmuchError(status)\r
+ notmuch.errors.XapianError\r
+---\r
+ devel/nmbug/nmbug-status | 2 +-\r
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status\r
+index 199892f..be3e28e 100755\r
+--- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status\r
++++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status\r
+@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ else:\r
+ \r
+ # main program\r
+ \r
+-db = notmuch.Database(mode=notmuch.Database.MODE.READ_WRITE)\r
++db = notmuch.Database(mode=notmuch.Database.MODE.READ_ONLY)\r
+ \r
+ if output_format == 'html':\r
+ print('''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>\r
+-- \r
+1.8.5.2.8.g0f6c0d1\r
+\r