>> Hmmm, and I seem to recall /var/cache/wwwoffle/outgoing is fetched in >> ls -U order.
A> Yes it is fetched in this order which is why it is a FIFO, entries are A> fetched in the order they are added to the directory. # cd /var/cache/wwwoffle/outgoing/ # ls -U|sum 17587 5 # find . -type f -printf %f\\n|sum 17587 5 # find . -name U\* -printf %t\\n|sed s/:.*//|uniq Wed Sep 29 04 Wed Sep 29 03 Wed Sep 29 04 Wed Sep 29 07 Wed Sep 29 05 Wed Sep 29 06 Tue Sep 28 05 Tue Sep 28 06 Tue Sep 28 07 Tue Sep 28 08 Tue Sep 28 09 Tue Sep 28 10 I had powered up on Tuesday morning and again on Wednesday morning. Each day I didn't finish fetching all outgoing before hanging up. Here we see that it is (generally) FIFO within one day, but LIFO across days (reboots, wwwoffle sessions, or whatever.) Interesting. All determined by how Linux manages directories I suppose.
