On 04/14/2012 10:09 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 09:49:00PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> The one problem would be if, as the OP's script is written, >> backgrounding of processes is done there is no way to control the >> order of data being written to the pipe. And, as you pointed out, >> you may want to write out sequence numbers if that is important. > Well, it's guaranteed it will be in the order written by each process, > since the write to the pipe is queued in request order. I'm > anal-retentive; the more useful data, the better. The identifier & > sequence number gives me more data I can mung, and strip if I don't > need it. What I was referring to was the script as written by the OP and which may he executed as ./io.sh > pipe The script contains multiple "echo &" commands which are not guaranteed to be executed in order, especially on a multi-CPU system. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org