Olivier Taïbi <oli@olitb.net> writes:

Thanks for the mail. In general we need each change in a separate patch
for review. Being zlib related is not really close enough for us.

> the following diff addresses 3 zlib-related bugs in notmuch.
> 1) the second argument of gzerror() cannot be NULL, so replace it by a dummy
>    &errnum.

I've incorporated this change into another related series, thanks for
the report.

> 2) gzerror() cannot be closed after gzclosed(), so just print the error value
>    instead.

That seems legit. To speed things up, you could make a separate patch, rebased against
master. 

> 3) in gz_getline(), if gz_error sets its second argument to Z_STREAM_END then
>    there was no error (only EOF).  Unfortunately the zlib manual is not very
>    clear on the meaning of Z_STREAM_END, but I don't see how it could be an
>    error.  I found this issue by using notmuch on OpenBSD, which has an old
>    zlib.  I encountered other issues with notmuch on OpenBSD (e.g. there is no
>    transparency mode in this older zlib, so notmuch dump output is always
>    gzipped), but they do not seem to be bugs in notmuch.

I have to think / read about this more. A separate patch would help here
as well.

d
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