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| author | Ruslan Baratov <ruslan_baratov@yahoo.com> | 2015-10-20 20:53:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-10-21 12:51:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 5a208f834ea6d786611a5dc34dd7ed1d781dd1bc (patch) | |
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Help: Document that file(GLOB*) order is undefined
Since this command use 'readdir' under the hood the order of list is
undefined:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8977441/does-readdir-guarantee-an-order
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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst index bbddd40..96ac6c7 100644 --- a/Help/command/file.rst +++ b/Help/command/file.rst @@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ Generate a list of files that match the ``<globbing-expressions>`` and store it into the ``<variable>``. Globbing expressions are similar to regular expressions, but much simpler. If ``RELATIVE`` flag is specified, the results will be returned as relative paths to the given -path. +path. No specific order of results is defined. If order is important then +sort the list explicitly (e.g. using the :command:`list(SORT)` command). By default ``GLOB`` lists directories - directories are omited in result if ``LIST_DIRECTORIES`` is set to false. |