Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757279AbYG2Ju7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:50:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757180AbYG2JuW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:50:22 -0400 Received: from mail.renesas.com ([202.234.163.13]:63725 "EHLO mail05.idc.renesas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756839AbYG2JuU (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:50:20 -0400 X-AuditID: ac140388-0000000700006b18-10-488ee7d930ac Message-ID: <488EE7BF.4020908@rsel.renesas.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:49:51 +0200 From: "Oliver Soltys" Reply-To: Oliver.Soltys@rsel.renesas.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: directory sort order no longer beginning with "." and ".."? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2378 Lines: 58 Hello, we experienced some change in the directory sort order. We installed a new server with kernel 2.6.18. While testing, an old (but important) application won't correctly show a directory selection window (is there a name for such a thing?) when changing to a NFS (version2) mounted directory. Further investigations showed, that up to kernel 2.6.11 a "ls -f" gave a unsorted directory listing, but beginning with "." and "..". Newer kernel (I checked 2.6.18 and 2.6.25) have the "." and ".." somewhere else in the "ls -f" output. The same sort order can be seen using nfsV2 with "tcpdump". I think this the reason for our application to behave weird. My question: is this a bug, or a feature? I could not find anything about that anywhere... Does anybody have an idea, how I can fix this? Unfortunately, our application can not be changed. Many thanks in advance & best regards, Oliver Soltys **************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited. E-mail messages are not necessarily secure. Renesas does not accept responsibility for any changes made to this message after it was sent. Please note that this email message has been swept by Renesas for the presence of computer viruses. Renesas Semiconductor Europe (Landshut) GmbH Jenaer Strasse 1, 84034 Landshut Tel.: +49-(0)871-684-0, Fax: +49-(0)871-684-150 www.rsel.renesas.com GESCHAEFTSFUEHRER: Dipl.-Ing. YOSHIHARU KAKUI GESCHAEFTSFUEHRER: Dipl.-Phys. STEFAN SAUER Registergericht Landshut HRB 1464 Ust-ldNr.: DE 128953054 Steuer-Nr.: 132/136/30347 HypoVereinsbank, Landshut, Kto.-Nr. 3704 700 (BLZ 743 200 73) Mizuho Corporate Bank (Germany) AG, Frankfurt, Kto.-Nr. 200 733 (BLZ 503 308 00) **************************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/