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

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Sep 19 21:11:00 GMT 2003


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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