On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:12:30AM -0700, John Reiser wrote: > On 05/18/2011 05:19 AM, Robert Schiele wrote: > > By just sorting the list of files to be processed we make the order > > (and thus the build result) reproducable again. The sorting > > criteria for this operation does not matter. > > Counterexample: sort by record number (thus output equals input.) > > Counterexample: any sort where two or more records have equal keys > (thus output order is not unique.) Ok, point taken. My statement was meant in the sense that it does not matter what the exact sort order is that the sort tool is creating, as long as it is unique. But if I had known that people start nitpicking on that I would have not added this additional statement. Robert
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