On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 19:26 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > If anyone is that confident that none of the system calls or > code in find will ever surprise them, they're free to skip > the sort. :) > > I always think of this quote when I'm writing some code and > being a bit defensive in its construction: > > A good programmer is one who looks both ways before > crossing a one-way street. -- Doug Linder > > Being in the habit of ensuring the state/order you want pays > off time and again in my experience. I can see one way people could easily got out of sorts (pun intended), where they might sort by modification date rather than creation date. Folders could be modified in any order. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
