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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:10:52 +0000
From:      Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Order of files with 'cp'
Message-ID:  <20051121121052.GA22309@uk.tiscali.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051121114614.GA1549@flame.pc>
References:  <20051116161540.GB4383@uk.tiscali.com> <437F7E22.5050800@freebsd.org> <20051120193416.GB1599@flame.pc> <20051120205605.GB19791@uk.tiscali.com> <20051121114614.GA1549@flame.pc>

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> To return to the problem at hand, the problem is that the
> 'sorting' function is allowed to re-arrange the order of argv[]
> elements.  I'd probably try to write mastercmp() in a way that
> satisfies all of the following:
> 
>     - All files are sorted before all directories
>     - Files are arranged by their argv[] order
>     - Directories are arranged by their argv[] order

I think that was my option (1) at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058098.html

Regards,

Brian.



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