Re: directory ops?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:36:56 +0200


Alexander Viro wrote:
> Adding the test will not hurt, indeed. Doing it accurately might be
> tricky, though. E.g. ls -l sorts the entries. In userspace. So you'll have
> to factor that out - I doubt that GNU ls does bogosort, but...

GNU ls stats in readdir order, so no bogosort.

-- Jamie

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