[PATCH] lib/message-file: close stream in destructor

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Fri May 10 08:33:04 PDT 2019


David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Without this,
>
> $ make time-test OPTIONS=--small
>
> leads to fatal errors from too many open files.
>
> Thanks to st-gourichon-fid for bringing this problem to my attention in IRC.
> ---
>  lib/message-file.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> The regression test could be improved, but I wanted to get a fix out
> and hopefully into master, as this is a problem that seems
> particularly likely to hit new users during their initial notmuch-new.
>
> diff --git a/lib/message-file.c b/lib/message-file.c
> index 50855067..24c5fda4 100644
> --- a/lib/message-file.c
> +++ b/lib/message-file.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ _notmuch_message_file_destructor (notmuch_message_file_t *message)
>      if (message->message)
>  	g_object_unref (message->message);
>  
> +    if (message->stream)
> +	g_object_unref (message->stream);
> +
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1

I received several reports that this fixes the problem, so I've pushed
it to master.



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