Answer by Yup for Ensuring a repeatable directory ordering in linux
Modern Linux (ext4) adds a B-tree index for file lists. One of his effect is default files order depends on a hash of their names.To disable this feature use :tune2fs -O^dir_index
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Educate your customer that there is an inherent order dependency that should be explicitly stated. Offer to help the customer express the dependency in such a way that a compile works on all systems...
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The POSIX call in Linux readdir() doesn't guarantee any consistent ordering. If you want ordered results, the application that is handling files is responsible for ordering how they are presented to...
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I know it's not the answer you're looking for, but I believe the correct solution is to avoid depending on the ordering of files in a directory. Maybe it's always consistent across all HFS+...
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I run a hosted continuous integration company, and we run our customers' code on Linux. Each time we run the code, we run it in a separate virtual machine. A frequent problem that arises is that a...
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