[Reproducible-commits] [reproducible-utils] 01/01: Add limitations note.

[Chris Lamb]

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commit c61d2104851c8994fa49af20c0e92cc9684e1234
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 26 11:35:58 2016 +0100

    Add limitations note.
---
 bin/copy-dir-randomly | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bin/copy-dir-randomly b/bin/copy-dir-randomly
index 7988368..5c5ebc9 100755
--- a/bin/copy-dir-randomly
+++ b/bin/copy-dir-randomly
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+# NOTE: This works on, at least, ext{3,4}; other filesytems can always return
+# dirents in an deterministic order rendering this utility misleading at best.
+
 set -eu
 
 if [ "${#}" -lt 2 ]

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