On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 08:45 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 21:52 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > * A second invocation of SyncEvolution finds the definition of the
> > system address book via e_book_get_addressbooks() and tries to
> > open it with e_book_open(only_if_exists=false), which then fails
> > with various errors, depending on the EDS version ("Cannot open
> > book: db error 0x2 (No such file or directory)" in 3.2,
> > "DB_RUNRECOVERY" in 3.3).
> >
> > The problem can be avoided by always passing only_if_exists=true to
> > the open calls. The way how the API is defined and/or implemented,
> > creating an database definition and creating the actual database files
> > are two different steps.
>
> Hi,
> that's rather a bug in the backend. Calling with only_if_exists=false
> might mean that the backend should create a new book/calendar, in case
> it's not available yet. Otherwise, if you call with only_if_exists=true,
> the backend should claim an error when the requested book/calendar
> cannot be opened.
Sorry, typo in my email. I meant "the problem can be avoided by always
passing only_if_exist=false". In other words, never use
only_if_exists=true because it serves no useful purpose. Is that correct
or is there some legitimate usage for only_if_exists=true?
--
Bye, Patrick Ohly
--
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http://www.estamos.de/
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