From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:21:58 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: Re: A systematic way of handling Xapian lock errors?
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Re: A systematic way of handling Xapian lock errors?
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Matt Armstrong <marmstrong@google.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: A systematic way of handling Xapian lock errors?
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+Matt Armstrong <marmstrong@google.com> writes:
+
+
+> To address both, has something like this ever been considered:
+>
+>   notmuch --lock_timeout <seconds> COMMAND ARG...
+>
+> Then frontends like Emacs could lean on retry logic written in C.  If
+> this seems workable, it is something I can try implementing.
+
+notmuch in git master uses xapians lock retry if present (xapian
+1.3+). Currently there is no timeout, but Olly seemed receptive to the
+idea of adding one, so I'd suggest that's the right place to work on
+improving this. You may find that just having unbounded lock retries
+(i.e. blocking opens) is enough for your issues.
+
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