Possible bug in notmuch_thread_get_authors ?

[David Bremner]

Róman Joost <roman at bromeco.de> writes:

> Checking other bindings it seems there is an explicit check for NULL and
> we're wondering if that is really necessary.  Perhaps a patch could
> initialize `*authors` in the _resolve_thread_authors_string function to an
> empty string OR at least mention it in the API documentation that the
> return value can be NULL?

Certainly the documentation update is fine. It's not clear to me without
diving into the code whether returning NULL is signalling an error, or
just a bug.

d