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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Oliver.Soltys@rsel.renesas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: directory sort order no longer beginning with "." and ".."?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:28:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488F5321.201@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0807290935s67eba63te5bb826a0ab7c752@mail.gmail.com>

Ray Lee wrote:
> That's a good idea, though based on his description it's even easier.
> The LD_PRELOAD just needs to artificially introduce . and .., at the
> beginning and toss them out once it hits them in the list. No sorting
> required.
>   
You'd have to be careful with respect to seekdir/telldir, but that may 
not matter if its just an app-specific hack.

    J

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29  9:49 directory sort order no longer beginning with "." and ".."? Oliver Soltys
2008-07-29 14:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-29 16:35   ` Ray Lee
2008-07-29 17:11     ` David Collier-Brown
2008-07-29 17:24       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-29 17:28     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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