doc: forbid further operations on a closed database

[notmuch] / lib / notmuch.h

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 85b56bf1e4c34e96fe37e4df7a06eb4b762f2e75..a43e167c2f84a059d31ff0fa093fd2de2abb9908 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -59,8 +59,17 @@ NOTMUCH_BEGIN_DECLS
 #define LIBNOTMUCH_MINOR_VERSION       3
 #define LIBNOTMUCH_MICRO_VERSION       0
 
+
+#if defined (__clang_major__) && __clang_major__ >= 3 \
+    || defined (__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 5 \
+    || defined (__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5
 #define NOTMUCH_DEPRECATED(major,minor) \
     __attribute__ ((deprecated ("function deprecated as of libnotmuch " #major "." #minor)))
+#else
+#define NOTMUCH_DEPRECATED(major,minor) __attribute__ ((deprecated))
+#endif
+
+
 #endif /* __DOXYGEN__ */
 
 /**
@@ -322,7 +331,9 @@ notmuch_database_status_string (const notmuch_database_t *notmuch);
  * functions on objects derived from this database may either behave
  * as if the database had not been closed (e.g., if the required data
  * has been cached) or may fail with a
- * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION.
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION. The only further operation
+ * permitted on the database itself is to call
+ * notmuch_database_destroy.
  *
  * notmuch_database_close can be called multiple times.  Later calls
  * have no effect.
@@ -1752,7 +1763,7 @@ notmuch_filenames_t *
 notmuch_directory_get_child_files (notmuch_directory_t *directory);
 
 /**
- * Get a notmuch_filenams_t iterator listing all the filenames of
+ * Get a notmuch_filenames_t iterator listing all the filenames of
  * sub-directories in the database within the given directory.
  *
  * The returned filenames will be the basename-entries only (not