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+Subject: [PATCH] lib: update documentation for notmuch_database_get_directory\r
+Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:07:43 -0400\r
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+Clarify that using the directory after destroying the corresponding\r
+database is not permitted.\r
+\r
+This is implicit in the description of notmuch_database_destroy, but\r
+it doesn't hurt to be explicit, and we do express similar "ownership"\r
+relationships at other places in the docs.\r
+---\r
+ lib/notmuch.h | 4 ++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h\r
+index 68896ae..3df1ade 100644\r
+--- a/lib/notmuch.h\r
++++ b/lib/notmuch.h\r
+@@ -415,6 +415,10 @@ notmuch_database_end_atomic (notmuch_database_t *notmuch);\r
+ * If this directory object does not exist in the database, this\r
+ * returns NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS and sets *directory to NULL.\r
+ *\r
++ * Otherwise the returned directory object is owned by the database\r
++ * and as such, will only be valid until notmuch_database_destroy is\r
++ * called.\r
++ *\r
+ * Return value:\r
+ *\r
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully retrieved directory.\r
+-- \r
+1.8.5.2\r
+\r