Hi. On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:08:19AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Hm. Interfaces man page refers to wordexp(3), but this one doesn't say > > anything about sorted results > > In the absence of such information, the best thing to conclude is that > the order is unspecified. It may be using the raw unsorted directory > contents from readdir(3), or it may be starting them all in parallel > threads, in which case the order will be nondeterministic.
wordexp(3) invokes glob(3). glob(3) states that one *needs* to specify GLOB_NOSORT to get resultes pathnames in no particular order, as by default the result will be sorted. Unless I'm reading glibc source wrong, the only non-default argument that wordexp(3) passes to glob(3) is GLOB_NOCHECK. Reco
