Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:00 +0200 (MEST) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? |
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On May 12 2007 07:46, Matt Mackall wrote: >> >> You should not assume alphabetical order. Filesystems may be free to >> reorder things and return them (1) randomly like in a hash (2) by >> creation time during readdir(). > >There is no assumption. Mercurial explicitly visits files in >alphabetical order for the above commands.
But who says that
for i in {a..z}; do ## {..} is a bash3 extension touch $i; done; actually makes readdir() return them in the same order?
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