deterministic order for include by wildcard

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:42:19PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> > Results are alphabetically sorted. The wildcard expansion is implemented
> > by standard glob() libc function, and unfortunately both Single UNIX
> > specification and GNU C library documentation are lacking details about
> > that. I would expect that it is a plain ASCII, non-localized alphabetic sort.
> 
> In glibc, glob() is locale-aware and it will use the locale's collating
> order.
> ...
> That said, glibc will default the entire program to the C locale (or maybe
> C.UTF-8 nowadays), unless setlocale() has been called.
> 
> If you are working in an unknown locale, though (e.g. setlocale() was called
> to set the process locale to the system's locale), do *NOT* assume the
> sorting will look like what you'd get out of ASCII.

That is true, but we do not call setlocale(). That is the reason why i
would expect it to be a plain ASCII, non-localized alphabetic sort.

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