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Re: libexec/httpd and unsorted directory index



Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> "James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost> writes:
> > Instead of embedding sorting knowledge in the daemon, why not popen(3)
> > another binary and let it do the whole job?
> 
> Then you have to provide httpd with an environment in which it can
> execute other programs. Some of us prefer running things chrooted and
> neutered.

For it to work, yes.  If you don't provide that, then you get unsorted
directories.  

--jkl




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