[Xquartz-dev] /etc/paths.d/40-Xquartz

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

The files are processed in order.

It doesn't look like that's explicit in the man page, but you can see the source here:

http://opensource.apple.com/source/shell_cmds/shell_cmds-179/path_helper/path_helper.c

> On Nov 16, 2015, at 14:18, Tom Carpenter <thomaslc at umass.edu> wrote:
> 
> I recently installed XQuartz 2.7.8 on an El Capitan 10.11.1 system. I asked
> Apple tech support about this (didn't get a definitive answer...they thought
> maybe it was some way of identifying a file version): what is the significance
> of the '40-' prefix of the file '/etc/paths.d/40-Xquartz'? 'udev' on Linux uses
> numeric prefixes to control the order in which 'udev' processes configuration
> files; do the numeric prefixes of path_helper files control the order in which
> path statements are appended to the system PATH? If numeric prefixes are
> a feature of path_helper is that aspect of path_helper files documented
> anywhere?
> 
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