ot, a programming question

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Sun Dec 23 15:50:30 EST 2001


On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:26:12PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> It's probably a good thing that the shell does it.  Imagine the potential
> problems if programs used different algorythms to get the list of files.
> For example, what if ls and rm returned slightly different lists for a
> given wildcard?
Owch!
Greg
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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