Random order of configuration file reading

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:27:04PM +0100, Antonio P.P. Almeida wrote:

> > Hello!
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > [...]
> 
> Can't we just pass that as a config option so that the configure script
> detects the build environment and if were on *NIX the sorting is enabled?

The codepath in question is unix-only, the question is about user 
experience which will be different on unix and win32 with 
GLOB_NOSORT removed on unix.

Right now one can't rely on wildcard include ordering, and this is 
consistent for all platforms supported.  And "listen ... default" 
should be used to mark default server if one uses wildcard include 
to include multiple server blocks listening on the same some 
ip:port.  With the GLOB_NOSORT removed the behaviour will be 
different on unix (included files will be sorted) and win32 
(included files are not guaranteed to be sorted), which is 
considered bad.

(I personally think that GLOB_NOSORT should be removed anyway.  
I'll talk to Igor again about this.)

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