Re: [Bug-tar] Spurious testsuite failure

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > The order in which directory entries are returned by readdir is usually
> > unrelated to the order in which they are created.
>
> Thank you.

This is not true:

The order you see with readdir _is_ usually the same order you did use 
for creating when the directory was empty (in case of UNIX filesystems), but 
this is not guaranteed.....


Jörg

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