Developers of Sympa

[address@concealed (Kendall Libby)]

I realize that this is a rather old version, but I just wanted to make
sure I was reading the code correctly.

we had an issue last night were a list 'tfoo' got hit with several
thousand messages.  lists that started with 'a-s' had their list
traffic processed normally, but it appears that lists starting 'u-z'
were forced to wait until sympa processed all of the 'tfoo' list
traffic.

in sympa.pl, line 844:

    if (!opendir(DIR, $spool)) {
        fatal_err("Can't open dir %s: %m", $spool); ## No return.
    }
    @qfile = sort tools::by_date grep (!/^\./,readdir(DIR));
    closedir(DIR);


it looks like we're reading the msg spool, sorting by the datestamp
on the file and putting it into an array.  but then at line 880:

    ## Scans files in queue
    ## Search file with highest priority
    foreach my $t_filename (sort @qfile) {

we're taking that same array and sorting it... alphabetically.

should that second sort be 'sort tools::by_date @qfile' ?


K.