Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> writes:
> On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:56, Matthew King wrote:
>> Anything and everything which provides an unsorted and/or unsortable
>> list of anything.
>
> That's a bit of an overly-broad complaint.
>
> By way of counterexample, readdir(3) does not sort, for what should be
> very obvious reasons. OTOH, it's rather more useful that ls(1) sorts.
The result of readdir not sorted for very good reasons, but on the other
hand it's not unsortable (because it's an API and you can do whatever
you want with it).
Plus you could probably say that technically readdir doesn't provide a
list...
Matthew
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