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Re: processing order for configuration files in /etc/network/interfaces.d

From	Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: processing order for configuration files in /etc/network/interfaces.d
Date	2018-08-27 15:40 +0200
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	Hi.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:08:19AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Hm. Interfaces man page refers to wordexp(3), but this one doesn't say
> > anything about sorted results
> 
> In the absence of such information, the best thing to conclude is that
> the order is unspecified.  It may be using the raw unsorted directory
> contents from readdir(3), or it may be starting them all in parallel
> threads, in which case the order will be nondeterministic.

wordexp(3) invokes glob(3).

glob(3) states that one *needs* to specify GLOB_NOSORT to get resultes
pathnames in no particular order, as by default the result will be
sorted.

Unless I'm reading glibc source wrong, the only non-default argument
that wordexp(3) passes to glob(3) is GLOB_NOCHECK.

Reco

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processing order for configuration files in /etc/network/interfaces.d Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2018-08-23 16:40 +0200
  Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-23 17:10 +0200
    Re: processing order for configuration files in /etc/network/interfaces.d Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2018-08-26 14:50 +0200
      Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-26 16:50 +0200
        Re: processing order for configuration files in /etc/network/interfaces.d Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2018-08-26 20:40 +0200
          Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-27 04:40 +0200
          Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-27 10:20 +0200
            Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-27 15:10 +0200
              Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-27 15:30 +0200
              Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 15:40 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-27 16:50 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-27 18:10 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 18:30 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-27 18:50 +0200
                Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 19:40 +0200
          Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 15:30 +0200
  Re: processing order for configuration files in  /etc/network/interfaces.d Badiane Ka <badiane_ka@yahoo.com> - 2018-08-29 17:50 +0200

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