[PATCH] doc: forbid further operations on a closed database

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Mon Jun 27 14:16:41 PDT 2016


On Mon, Jun 27 2016, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:

> We could add many null pointer checks, but currently I don't see a use
> case that justifies it.
> ---
>  lib/notmuch.h | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
> index d4a97cb..2faa146 100644
> --- a/lib/notmuch.h
> +++ b/lib/notmuch.h
> @@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ notmuch_database_status_string (const notmuch_database_t *notmuch);
>   * functions on objects derived from this database may either behave
>   * as if the database had not been closed (e.g., if the required data
>   * has been cached) or may fail with a
> - * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION.
> + * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION. The only further operation
> + * permitted on the database itself is to call
> + * notmuch_database_destroy.

LGTM


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