Random order of configuration file reading

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:48:27PM +0800, Joshua Zhu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM, philipp <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > we have a bunch of servers which are configured 100% equal expect of host
> > specific settings like ip address in the listener using chef/puppet. Nginx
> > seems to read include / config files not in the same order on each server.
> >
> > For example we haven't defined a default vhost on each server... so nginx
> > uses the first loaded file which is exampleA.com on server 1 and
> > exampleB.com on server 2.
> >
> > Furhtermore we use the upstream check status module, the status page is
> > randomly ordered at each server...
> >
> > Is it possible to configure nginx to read config in the alphabeticial
> > order?
> >
> > For example
> >
> > vhosts/exampleA.com (1.)
> > vhosts/exampleB.com (2.)
> >
> 
> This is a known issue. It has been fixed in our own
> Tengine<http://tengine.taobao.org>
>  distribution:
> https://github.com/taobao/tengine/blob/master/src/os/unix/ngx_files.c#L362
> 
> If you want to use official nginx only, you can apply the patch below:
> 
> @Maxim:
> Would you please consider to apply this patch to the trunk? Thanks in
> advance.

I've already proposed removing GLOB_NOSORT to Igor a while ago.  
His position on this is to keep this in sync with Windows version 
where there is no sort guaranties.

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