Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:33:54 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Order of files with 'cp' Message-ID: <437F7E22.5050800@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051116161540.GB4383@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20051116161540.GB4383@uk.tiscali.com>
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Brian Candler wrote: > I've noticed on FreeBSD-5.4 and -6.0 that the order in which 'cp' copies > multiple files does not match the order they're given on the command line. ... > I've had a look through the code, and it seems that cp calls fts_open() with > the list of files in argv; fts_open then does a qsort() on the arguments, > using the comparison function mastercmp() provided by cp: My suggestion: Have 'cp' call fts_open once for each command-line argument, instead of giving fts_open the entire argv list to muck with. Requires faking up an argv array for each single item, but that will be a lot easier than trying to fix fts. Tim
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