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

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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.
>
> cgf

Yes, it's acceptable, but I guess I'm not the only one spoiled by Win2k
(judging by the contents of /etc/profile).

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.
	Igor
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