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Cron jobs execution order

Bit of a noob question here:
The scripts I put in /etc/cron.daily (or any other cron.* directory for that matter) are executed all in parallel or in sequence?

Edit: My distribution is Slackware, but I believe this question applies to many others.

From the cron manpage under Debian Wheezy:

Code:

cron also reads /etc/crontab, which is in a slightly  different  format

(see crontab(5)).  In Debian, the content of /etc/crontab is predefined

to    run    programs    under    /etc/cron.hourly,    /etc/cron.daily,

/etc/cron.weekly  and /etc/cron.monthly. This configuration is specific

to Debian, see the note under DEBIAN SPECIFIC below.  in order.

"In order" implies (to me) that they are run in sequence. As well, I noticed one or two files on my install are prefixed by numbers, apparently to give them a higher priority and run before others.