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Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)

From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:11:28 -0400
Subject: Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)
References: <NGBBLLIAMFLGJEOAJCCEMEFBDEAA.garbage_collector@telia.com> <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309191648290.12411@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

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.

cgf

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