25 Dec
2015
25 Dec
'15
10:08 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:52 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
On 12/24/2015 10:03 PM, Simon Iten wrote:
why does readdir on linux output filenames not in order? 16.* before
10.* for example? most likely because readdir(3) does not return the filenames in the order you expect (the order might not be alphabetically but it might be sorted by inode number; or creation date; or...).
to cut it short: readdir(3) doesn't guarantee *any* order. if some filesystems return data in a given order, that is just by accident.
+1 ... beat me to it ;-)
marmosets, Bryan
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