deterministic order for include by wildcard

[Warren Turkal]

According to an IRC discussion with someone named Elrond:

<Elrond>   rv = glob(patt, GLOB_ERR | GLOB_NOESCAPE, NULL, &g);
<Elrond>       char *fname = g.gl_pathv[i];

This seems good to me. Seems like it might be useful to mention that the
glob is sorted in the docs.

wt

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Warren Turkal <wt at penguintechs.org> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Do wildcards in includes resolve in a deterministic order? I'd like to
> just put something like the following in my bird.conf:
>
> include "/etc/bird.d/*.conf"
>
> If I do that, can I rely on 10-common.conf to be included before
> 20-bgp_to_other_place.conf so that I can define templates in a common place
> and use those templated in the later included files?
>
> If there is a deterministic order, it might make sense to identify that
> order in the docs. I only found [1], which does not say anything about the
> order of the files included.
>
> Also, if the ordering does exist, does anything affect the ordering?
>
> As a side note, it would also be nice to add an anchor to each option in
> the different sections where there are options so that one could link
> directly to the option within the section. If that had existed, I could
> have linked to the "include" option directly.
>
> Is there a bug tracker somewhere for bird for this type of request?
>
> Thanks,
> wt
>
> [1]http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-3.html#ss3.2 at the "include"
> option
>
>
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