[PATCH 2/2] python: annotate all calls into libnotmuch with types

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Justus Winter (2011-12-06 13:51:08)
>Quoting Sebastian Spaeth (2011-12-06 13:05:53)
>>On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:46:31 +0000, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> This commit breaks raising XapianErrors for me.
>>> 
>>> If I lock the index with some `notmuch tag +test '*'`
>>> and try to write to it in alot, i get a segfault and
>>> the following on stderr:
>>> 
>>> Xapian exception occurred opening database: Unable to get write lock on
>>> /home/pazz/mail/.notmuch/xapian: already locked
>>
>>Hi Justus,
>>I can confirm that this patch breaks as Totzke has described it:
>>
>>http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/commitdiff/3434d194026ff65217d9342ffe511f67fd71e79f
>>
>>This change makes python segfault with a Xapianerror on stdout rather
>>than the python exception that we were seeing before this patch.
>>
>>-     _open.restype = c_void_p
>>+     _open.restype = NotmuchDatabaseP
>>
>>
>>As the patch obviously fixed other crashers I would like to not revert
>>it. Can you have a look and see if you find a cause of that?
>
>Yes, I've seen that one as well and could not figure out what causes
>it since I thought that I wasn't changing the semantic of the binding.
>
>I began running alot in gdb since I get segfaults within libnotmuch
>from time to time and managed to get a stack trace pointing to
>notmuch_database_begin_atomic, but I couldn't figure out what caused
>it.

#0  0x00007f5f25e30f71 in notmuch_database_begin_atomic () from /home/teythoon/.local/lib/libnotmuch.so.2
#1  0x00007f5f2605ef70 in ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ctypes.so
#2  0x00007f5f2605e9eb in ffi_call () from /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ctypes.so
#3  0x00007f5f260529c7 in _call_function_pointer (argcount=1, resmem=0x7fff57659500, restype=<optimized out>, 
    atypes=<optimized out>, avalues=0x7fff576594e0, pProc=0x7f5f25e30f70 <notmuch_database_begin_atomic>, 
    flags=4353) at /home/packages/python/2.7/python2.7-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:827

with stderr saying:

A Xapian exception occurred opening database: Unable to get write lock on /home/teythoon/Maildir/.notmuch/xapian: already locked

Justus
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