Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: directory order of files | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:36:36 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> With Linux ext2, and some other systems, when you create files in a > new directory, the file system remembers their order:
No - it merely seems too.
> $ touch one two three four > $ ls -U > one two three four
Then try 'rm three; touch five'
> > (1) Is there any standard that says a system should behave this way? > Is there any software that depends on this behaviour?
The order is arbitary.
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