some more easy patches

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> These patches close a few gaps in the local backend implementation.
> They have only been compile-tested.

I've applied 0002-trivial-cleanup.patch. I really don't want to apply
the other patches as they haven't been tested. Any chance you can test
them? Otherwise I get to them when finishing the UI bits (working on
it right now, makes testing things like these a lot easier).

Thanks,
David