Re: libexec/httpd and unsorted directory index

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> httpd(8) provides -X for generating index.
>
> src/libexec/httpd/dir-index-bozo.c uses opendir/readdir with no sorting.
>
> Looking at long index like under the /pub/pkgsrc/... directories is a
> little difficult because entries are not sorted alphabetically nor by
> modification time.
>
> Should it use glob or scandir with alphasort or other?

        If its going to sort it probably makes sense to provide the
        option of sort key, at least filename & mod asce/desc and
        possibly even size, eg "-k {path,size,mtime}". What to do
        for descending? '-k -size' (ick)

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