On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [DVB PATCH 1/9] Replace frobutomic counter with sequence numbers
People might find the below script (hacked from gregkh's version) useful
for doing this. Should be fairly obvious.
regards,
john
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# horrible hack of a script to send off a large number of email messages, one after
# each other, all chained together. This is useful for large numbers of patches.
#
# Use at your own risk!!!!
#
# greg kroah-hartman Jan 8, 2002
# <greg@kroah.com>
#
# Released under the artistic license.
#
#
# modify these options each time you run the script
#
#$to = 'torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org';
$to = 'levon@movementarian.org';
# If you want to chain the first post, fill this in
$initial_reply_to = '';
# a list of patches to send out
@files = (
["shutdown.diff", "OProfile: small NMI shutdown fix"],
["ioapic.diff", "OProfile: IO-APIC based NMI delivery"],
["exec.diff", "OProfile: thread switching performance fix"],
);
# Put your name and address here
$from = "John Levon <levon\@movementarian.org>";
# Don't need to change anything below here...
use Mail::Sendmail;
# we make a "fake" message id by taking the current number
# of seconds since the beginning of Unix time and tacking on
# a random number to the end, in case we are called quicker than
# 1 second since the last time we were called.
sub make_message_id
{
my $date = `date "+\%s"`;
chomp($date);
my $pseudo_rand = int (rand(4200));
$message_id = "<$date$pseudo_rand\@movementarian.org>";
print "new message id = $message_id\n";
}
sub send_message
{
%mail = ( To => $to,
From => $from,
Subject => $subject,
Message => $message,
'In-Reply-To' => $reply_to,
'Message-ID' => $message_id,
'X-Mailer' => "gregkh_patchbomb_levon_offspring",
);
$mail{smtp} = 'localhost';
sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log;
print "\n\n"
}
$reply_to = $initial_reply_to;
make_message_id();
$nrfiles = @files;
$current = 1;
foreach $t (@files) {
($F, $subj) = @$t;
open F or die "can't open file $t";
undef $/;
$message = <F>; # slurp the whole file in
close F;
$/ = "\n";
$subject = "[PATCH $current/$nrfiles] $subj";
send_message();
# set up for the next message
$reply_to = $message_id;
make_message_id();
$current++;
}
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