order of source_dirs in cp(1)

[Matthias Apitz]

Hello,

I was doing

$ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm

and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man
page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through
the list in the given order...

Why this is done this way?

Thanks

	matthias
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