directory sort order no longer beginning with "." and ".."?

[Oliver Soltys]

Hello,

we experienced some change in the directory sort order. We installed a new
server with kernel 2.6.18. While testing, an old (but important) application
won't correctly show a directory selection window (is there a name for such a
thing?) when changing to a NFS (version2) mounted directory.

Further investigations showed, that up to kernel 2.6.11 a "ls -f" gave a
unsorted directory listing, but beginning with "." and "..".

Newer kernel (I checked 2.6.18 and 2.6.25) have the "." and ".." somewhere else
in the "ls -f" output.

The same sort order can be seen using nfsV2 with "tcpdump".

I think this the reason for our application to behave weird.

My question: is this a bug, or a feature? I could not find anything about that
anywhere...

Does anybody have an idea, how I can fix this? Unfortunately, our application
can not be changed.

Many thanks in advance & best regards,
Oliver Soltys

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