>> Maybe I missed the point, but isn't it a fact that -u produces >> unreliable output (due to the racing condition) and so the dir >> processing will eventually fail? > > Not at all. It is just the output to stdout that may be mixed up (with > -u) or delayed (without -u). Everything else works as expected.
Argh, there it is, my mistake: The 'echo' _is_ the dir processor, I somehow thought it would _feed_ the dir processor. And now it is not the dir processors INPUT that might be unreliable, it's its OUTPUT. And hopefully noone cares about that. Thanks a lot Ole! I've been kind of blind. Thomas
