1From: "Carl Worth" <cworth@cworth.org>
2To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
3Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:19:24 -0800
4Subject: [notmuch] preliminary FreeBSD support
5In-Reply-To: <cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com>
6References: <cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com>
7Message-ID: <87lji4lx9v.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
8
9On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:36:14 -0800, Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry at gmail.com> wrote:
10> I saw the announcement this morning, and was very excited, as I had been
11> hoping sup would be turned into a library,
12> since I like the concept more than the UI (I'd rather an emacs interface).
13
14Hi Alex,
15
16That's great! It's good to hear that there are like-minded people out
17there. I hope that Notmuch will be useful for you.
18
19> I did a preliminary compile which worked out fine, but
20> sysconf(_SC_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) returns -1 on
21> FreeBSD, so notmuch_config_open segfaulted.
22>
23> Attached is a patch that supplies a default buffer size of 64 in cases where
24> -1 is returned.
25
26Thanks for the patch. As we discussed in IRC[*], we should probably
27do the correct thing and check for ERANGE and loop as necessary (even if
28sysconf returns a positive value). Example code here:
29
30http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt
31
32-Carl
33
34[*] #notmuch on irc.freenode.net for those who didn't just guess that
35already, (and I'll add that to the website soon).
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