On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:23:40PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >Speaking of your machine, could this be because you're using Win98? >> >(Checking) Bingo! Somehow, on Win98 find traverses files in unsorted >> >order, i.e., the order they were created. >> >> Which is acceptable behavior, as I'm sure you know. You can't rely on >> any kind of predictable ordering behavior from find, AFAIK. > >Yes, it's acceptable, but I guess I'm not the only one spoiled by Win2k >(judging by the contents of /etc/profile).
When I was debugging the never-ending "find misses the last directory" problem, I was actually surprised to see that everything was returned in alphabetic order. It is nice to see predictable behavior in opendir/readdir. Too bad it isn't part of SUSv3. >The reason I even tried to raise this point was that some scripts >apparently did rely on this behavior, and I was asking whether, perhaps, >/etc/profile should call these scripts in alphabetical order to satisfy >these expectations. Yes, I understand why you made the point and I agree 100%. I was just trying to forestall any "Cygwin should fix this" type of reasoning. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
