From 2c00c77d2a6c3026f4e95b0ec0e5b0a9afb9c918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@naturesorganics.com.au>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:37:39 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] add comment for future work

---
 ffiler.sh | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ffiler.sh b/ffiler.sh
index 9305afc..009365f 100755
--- a/ffiler.sh
+++ b/ffiler.sh
@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ main() {
         # a directory, and the user wants us to recurse!
         # TODO: this is not proper recursion, but I'm in a rush today
         # this needs to actually descend into child directories
+        # also, we need to consider that the output directory may
+        # be a child of the source directory, in which case doing proper
+        # recursion could end up re-processing files that are already
+        # sorted in previous runs. dont know how to deal with that.
         cd "$fname"
         for C in $(ls "$fname/") ; do
           [[ ! -f "$C" ]] && continue