[PATCH] test: new: Fix intermittent test failures with --debug

Jameson Graef Rollins jrollins at finestructure.net
Sun Oct 21 22:18:52 PDT 2012


On Sun, Oct 21 2012, Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan.glasser.camp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Although messages are created in a particular order, it seems that
> when they are created on a tmpfs, they do not always come back in the
> same order, leading to the same files being ignored but being output
> in a different order. This causes the test to fail because the outputs
> being compared are the same.
>
> Fix the failures by sorting the output of notmuch --debug and
> comparing this to a hand-sorted version of its output.

This seems to fix a failing test that I'm seeing right now, at least in
the couple of times that I've re-run the tests after applying this
patch.

jamie.
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