Re: [hylafax-users] Anyway to control the order that faxstat lists them modems?

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

* John Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [070914 14:21]:
> True you can do it that way but the sort is not right when some of  
> the tty have one digit and some have two, i.e., ttyS5 and ttyS10.

sort -n does numerical sorting.

> It just seems like there just may be a list that faxstat is using  
> which could be edited that might change the order but maybe not and  
> sort is the best one can do.

It takes them in the order the underlying FS keeps them in its
opendir/readdir/sequence.  Most Linux FS *used* to keep them in the
order they were created (so when we opendir/readdir, they were returned
in file creation order).  But modern Linux FS's no longer always return
them in creation order - they store them in hashes and tree's that
provide much faster access and higher scalability, but don't keep the
original creation order.

a.

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Aidan Van Dyk                                             aidan@xxxxxxxx
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