linux-kernel - Re: directory sort order no longer beginning with "." and ".."?

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Message-ID: <488F5321.201@goop.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:28:01 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
CC:	Oliver.Soltys@...l.renesas.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: directory sort order no longer beginning with "." and ".."?

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
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