On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:07:20AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:31, Richard Atterer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:58:39PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
> > > I just uploaded a new version of libwww 5.4.0 to fix #151894 and the
> > > build failed on sparc and ia64 with really bizarre symptoms.
> >
> > I now found out that the build fails on ReiserFS, but succeeds on
> > ext2! What could be causing this?
>
> I remember hearing somewhere that the ext filesystem internally orders
> directory entries alphabetically by filename, and readdir() of course
> returns them that way, while ReiserFS stores them in some sort of
> special order internally, and the readdir() doesn't return sorted
> entries.
directory entries are certainly not sorted in ext2. See the man page
of ls:
...
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX
nor --sort.
...
-f do not sort, enable -aU, disable -lst
...
and try ls -f in any directory. Output isn't sorted.
> Perhaps libtool (or some other program) is parsing the output of 'ls' or
> something and is implicitly depending on the alphabetical ordering,
> instead of piping the output to 'sort'?
Mermgfurt,
Oliver
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