From 9f98aaa29f96d734da17eeb72c75a7e5e5446419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Walters Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 08:04:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] News for dump/writelock change --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3c22293f..de935cc7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ Notmuch 0.19~rc1 (2014-11-06) ============================= +Command-Line Interface +---------------------- + +Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database + + The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This + prevents other processes from writing to the database during the + dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch + process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so + script callers should still check the return value. + Emacs Interface --------------- -- 2.26.2