Stable ordering of pathname expansion results

• Reporter: magicant
• Owner: magicant
• Type: Feature Requests
• Status: Closed
• Component: shell-main
• MileStone: POSIX.1-2016 support (closed)
• Priority: 3
• Severity: 5 - Medium
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• File: None

Details Reply

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_13_03

If the pattern matches any existing filenames or pathnames, the pattern shall be replaced with those filenames and pathnames, sorted according to the collating sequence in effect in the current locale. If this collating sequence does not have a total ordering of all characters, any filenames or pathnames that collate equally should be further compared byte-by-byte using the collating sequence for the POSIX locale.

Is it possible to implement this strict ordering in yash?

Ticket History (3/4 Histories)

2016-10-23 23:51 Updated by: magicant

• New Ticket "Stable ordering of pathname expansion results" created

2016-10-30 18:23 Updated by: magicant

• Priority Update from 5 - Medium to 3

2016-12-16 22:39 Updated by: magicant

• Milestone Update from POSIX.1-2016 support (closed) to (None)

2016-12-16 22:44 Updated by: magicant

• Resolution Update from None to Won't Fix
• Status Update from Open to Closed
• Ticket Close date is changed to 2016-12-16 22:44
• Milestone Update from (None) to POSIX.1-2016 support (closed)

Comment Reply

Byte-by-byte comparison is difficult because yash treats strings in wide characters. No action taken until POSIX disallows the current yash behavior.