Re: ls -v oddity with autosave files

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday 09 April 2009 11:32:58 Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2009 09:23:37 Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Note that the #.b# file is listed at the top in (1) and at the bottom in
> > (2), despite all filenames in the directory being the same!
>
> Thanks for discovering this! The transitive axiom of the predicate is
> broken. I am working on a fix. It seems like a regression from this commit:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=0443c2f3994
>3017f0aaa0afacbf68fb725858963

The fix for hidden files was based on a really bad idea. I've replaced it
with a special handle for "", "." and "..".

Each strcmp compares max 2 or 3 chars, so there is no performance impact 
(tested with -02 with zero impact; with -O0 it takes about 2% more time on 
sorting 100000 items).

The behavior on the current test suite is unchanged and the suite has been 
enlarged with "" and "#.b#". Note that the suite has been already checking 
transitivity of the sort predicate, but the "#.b#" was not included.


Kamil

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