Re: libexec/httpd and unsorted directory index

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:52:23PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> >
> > > httpd(8) provides -X for generating index.
> > >
> > > src/libexec/httpd/dir-index-bozo.c uses opendir/readdir with no sorting.
> > >
> > > Looking at long index like under the /pub/pkgsrc/... directories is a
> > > little difficult because entries are not sorted alphabetically nor by
> > > modification time.
> > >
> > > Should it use glob or scandir with alphasort or other?
> >
> >         If its going to sort it probably makes sense to provide the
> >         option of sort key, at least filename & mod asce/desc and
> >         possibly even size, eg "-k {path,size,mtime}". What to do
> >         for descending? '-k -size' (ick)
>
> Really, it would be nice to avoid cat's camel's back here.
>
> If you want the directory sorted (certainly if you want it sorted in a
> non-default way), can't you just generate a directory index and put it
> in index.html?

        I can understand reluctance to add complexity into what is
        intended to be a small and simple daemon. Maybe just fixed
        ascending alphasort would be a reasonable compomise (so no
        option to disable sort if -X is used)


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