[PATCH 10/10] test: use emacsclient(1) for Emacs tests

[Austin Clements]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> That means that if the emacs_deliver_message code is fast enough, (less
> than 1 second), and if the test suite is being run on a lame filesystem
> without sub-second timestamp granularity (including ext3fs) that the
> "notmuch new" invocation will not see the mail[*].

Or, really, any file system, since notmuch doesn't currently take
advantage of sub-second mtimes.

> [*] And, yes, this does mean that there are race conditions under which
> mail can be delivered and notmuch won't see it, (unless subsequent mails
> are delivered to the same directory). Austin has a plan to fix the use
> of the mtime timestamp in notmuch, (never storing the current mtime in
> the database if it's the same as the current time), that should
> hopefully close this race window.

Posted.