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+From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH] Actually close the xapian database in notmuch_database_close\r
+Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:58:39 +0100\r
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+Formerly the xapian database object was deleted and closed in its\r
+destructor once the object was garbage collected. Explicitly call\r
+close() so that the database and the associated lock is released\r
+immediately.\r
+\r
+The comment is a courtesy of Austin Clements.\r
+\r
+Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>\r
+---\r
+ lib/database.cc | 11 +++++++++++\r
+ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc\r
+index 5efa85e..8f8df1a 100644\r
+--- a/lib/database.cc\r
++++ b/lib/database.cc\r
+@@ -726,6 +726,17 @@ notmuch_database_close (notmuch_database_t *notmuch)\r
+ }\r
+ }\r
+ \r
++ /* Many Xapian objects (and thus notmuch objects) hold references to\r
++ * the database, so merely deleting the database may not suffice to\r
++ * close it. Thus, we explicitly close it here. */\r
++ if (notmuch->xapian_db != NULL) {\r
++ try {\r
++ notmuch->xapian_db->close();\r
++ } catch (const Xapian::Error &error) {\r
++ /* do nothing */\r
++ }\r
++ }\r
++\r
+ delete notmuch->term_gen;\r
+ delete notmuch->query_parser;\r
+ delete notmuch->xapian_db;\r
+-- \r
+1.7.9.1\r
+\r