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authorMichał Łyszczek <michal.lyszczek@bofc.pl>2020-05-28 15:24:41 +0200
committerMichał Łyszczek <michal.lyszczek@bofc.pl>2020-05-28 15:24:41 +0200
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src/el-file.c: add note to self about ordering
Took me 10 minutes to figure out why oldest file has suffix .0 and newest a non deterministic number. Signed-off-by: Michał Łyszczek <michal.lyszczek@bofc.pl>
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diff --git a/src/el-file.c b/src/el-file.c
index 34d2cbc..675b74f 100644
--- a/src/el-file.c
+++ b/src/el-file.c
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ int el_file_open
* Oldest file has suffix .0 while the newest one has
* suffix .${frotate_number} (or less if there are less
* files).
+ *
+ * Reason for such order is so user could do `cat logs.*`
+ * and in result concatenate all logs in order.
*/
for (i = el->frotate_number - 1; i >= 0; --i)