Random order of configuration file reading

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:15:50PM +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> 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.)

I've discussed this with Igor, and this time he finnally approved 
removing GLOB_NOSORT.  Committed, 

http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4944/nginx

Thanks to all for prodding this.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
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