segfault if notmuch-show query has spurious .. (w/ v0.17)

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Fri Jan 24 17:01:08 PST 2014


Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at olin.edu> writes:

> Probably because I kept using notmuch-emacs .elc code from 0.16 after
> notmuch got upgraded to 0.17 (I rarely restart emacs), my Emacs
> interface to notmuch started generating queries that caused Xapian
> exceptions and segfaults.  Here's one:
>
>   $ notmuch show '( FW: Student Employment Orie.. )'
>   A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
>   Query string was: ( FW: Student Employment Orie.. )
>   Segmentation fault

this should be fixed in git master (and in the next release of notmuch).

d


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