From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:29:30 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: notmuch search: Avoid infinite stream of exceptions from "notmuch search"
X-Git-Tag: 0.1~448
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=306635c27d1ca46a51d354235f3e0c6ec4b65de6;p=notmuch.git

notmuch search: Avoid infinite stream of exceptions from "notmuch search"

That is, give a nice error message and exit if no search terms are
provided. Thanks to Priit Laes <plaes@plaes.org> for reporting the
error and providing an early version of the fix.
---

diff --git a/notmuch-search.c b/notmuch-search.c
index f7f9e70c..2b1c0fea 100644
--- a/notmuch-search.c
+++ b/notmuch-search.c
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ notmuch_search_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
 	fprintf (stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
 	return 1;
     }
+    if (*query_str == '\0') {
+	fprintf (stderr, "Error: notmuch search requires at least one search term.\n");
+	return 1;
+    }
 
     query = notmuch_query_create (notmuch, query_str);
     if (query == NULL) {