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Request #53407 make scandir()'s directory sorting optional
Submitted: 2010-11-25 21:20 UTC Modified: 2010-11-26 10:53 UTC
From: stolen dot data dot net at gmail dot com Assigned: aharvey (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Directory function related
PHP Version: 5.3.3 OS: applies to all (OpenBSD for me)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-11-25 21:20 UTC] stolen dot data dot net at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.scandir
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Currently, scandir() commits some "userland villainry" by enforcing alphanumerical 
sorting of the directory entries it pulls. In some cases I needed a "natural" 
order of the entries in a directory. In another more obvious case, scandir() 
created notable CPU overhead from always sorting entries in a rather huge 
directory that was frequently read in the application. I had to go back to PHP4's 
opendir/readdir to solve the problem.

I'd like to suggest that scandir() gets new constants introduced to $sorting_order 
in order to make the sorting optional: something like SORT_NONE, SORT_ASCENDING 
and SORT_DESCENDING.

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 [2010-11-26 10:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Assigned -Assigned To: +Assigned To: aharvey
 [2010-11-26 10:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
This looks safe enough to implement on trunk: a Google Code Search
returns no instances of a value other than 0 or 1 being used as
the second parameter to scandir(), so I think as long as we document
this in the UPGRADING file, this should be OK.
 [2010-11-26 10:52 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of aharvey
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=305765
Log: Implemented FR #53407 (make scandir()'s directory sorting optional).
 [2010-11-26 10:53 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2010-11-26 10:53 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in SVN.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Implemented on trunk, although I've prefixed the constants with
SCANDIR_ to match our usual constant naming a bit better, hence
SCANDIR_SORT_ASCENDING, SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING and SCANDIR_SORT_NONE.
 
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