Patch for dot-files sort order under glibc 2.2
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Wed Jul 11 18:28:33 UTC 2001
Hi, Dmitry!
> The idea is trivial -- "ad" and "bd" flags change from boolean to
> integers (they are integers anyway, because of "bd-ad"), and "ISDIR" gets
> bigger weight than "is-dot-file".
The problem is not specific to the dot. Files beginning with other
punctuation characters, such as "=" are also sorted by the first letter:
$ ls -1
bar
=foo
;foo
foo1
> I'm crossposting it to mc-devel (sorry if it isn't needed).
You are correct, patches should go to mc-devel.
> As to case mixing in name sort, there is a "FIXME" note just before
> #define string_sortcomp, so somebody obviously realized the problem before,
> but yet with no solution.
It was me :-)
"cvs annotate" is your friend.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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