Hi Alan, I have been told by the application users that the tools/apps, have been written in Visual Basic, Visual C or Delphi and use functions like: FindFirstFile()/FindNextFile()/FindClose(), so `dir` isn't actually used, but shows the same behaviour as the named VB or C functions. The customer that uses this Unified storage unit, services hundreds of clients with each with alterations of custom tools, that would need to be rewritten (for quite a number of these the source has been lost and thus cannot be altered anymore)
These functions seem to provoke people to not worry about the sort-order too much, and let legacy programmers, NTFS B-tree sort this for them, "accidentally" giving them the correct alphabetical order. However, now that NTFS isn't used anymore, the legacy approach breaks. Even though it might be POSIX compliant, is there any way to configure a workaround, either in ZFS, CIFS, or another layer of the stack ? (even a switch of a system wide parameter or DLL on the winXP/Win2K CIFS client machine will do, however I'm probably in the wrong forum to get an answer to that last question ;) Frans -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
