On 10/20/20 2:40 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/20/20 10:52 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Technically, it's a reasonable bet that a sub-directory
>> will be created after the parent directory. But
>> reasonable bets still involve more risk than it's worth
>> when operating on your files. :)
>
> I can't imagine how it could work like that. It has to go
> recursively so it will *always* find the parent directory
> first. How could a subdirectory possibly be created
> before its parent directory?
It'd pretty unlikely for that to be the case, but you'd be
relying on the find command, the underlying readdir() system
calls, etc. which just don't guarantee an order.
It's more than unlikely, it's literally impossible. find has to open
the parent directory before it can even see the subdirectories.