The root cause is, that exim -bp doesn't always return the message
ids in the order they were created, but sorted. The 2nd
part of the message id (PID) can be random on *BSD.
- my($listcmd) = "$parm_cwd/eximdir/exim -bp " .
- "-DEXIM_PATH=$parm_cwd/eximdir/exim " .
- "-C $parm_cwd/test-config |";
- print ">> Getting queue list from:\n>> $listcmd\n" if ($debug);
- open (QLIST, $listcmd) || tests_exit(-1, "Couldn't run \"exim -bp\": $!\n");
- my(@msglist) = ();
- while (<QLIST>) { push (@msglist, $1) if /^\s*\d+[smhdw]\s+\S+\s+(\S+)/; }
- close(QLIST);
+ my @listcmd = ("$parm_cwd/eximdir/exim", '-bp',
+ "-DEXIM_PATH=$parm_cwd/eximdir/exim",
+ -C => "$parm_cwd/test-config");
+ print ">> Getting queue list from:\n>> @listcmd\n" if $debug;
# We need the message ids sorted in ascending order.
# Message id is: <timestamp>-<pid>-<fractional-time>. On some systems (*BSD) the
# PIDs are randomized, so sorting just the whole PID doesn't work.
# We do the Schartz' transformation here (sort on
# <timestamp><fractional-time>). Thanks to Kirill Miazine
# We need the message ids sorted in ascending order.
# Message id is: <timestamp>-<pid>-<fractional-time>. On some systems (*BSD) the
# PIDs are randomized, so sorting just the whole PID doesn't work.
# We do the Schartz' transformation here (sort on
# <timestamp><fractional-time>). Thanks to Kirill Miazine
- @msglist = map { $_->[0] }
- sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
- map { [$_, join '', (split '-', $_)[0,2]] } @msglist;
+ my @msglist =
+ map { $_->[1] } # extract the values
+ sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] } # sort by key
+ map { [join('.' => (split /-/, $_)[0,2]) => $_] } # key (timestamp.fractional-time) => value(message_id)
+ map { /^\s*\d+[smhdw]\s+\S+\s+(\S+)/ } `@listcmd` or tests_exit(-1, "No output from `exim -bp` (@listcmd)\n");
# Done backwards just in case there are more than 9
# Done backwards just in case there are more than 9