[Samba] directory list is not alphabetically sorted

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:04:29PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Am I to infer from this discussion that the Windows equivalent of
> readdir() always returns its entries in sorted order?  Explorer and
> CMD.EXE don't do that themselves?

I think in Windows it does, but I don't think the clients depend
on this (I vaguely recall a test that proved this was not mandatory...,
can't remember the exact details though).

Explorer and cmd.exe certainly do this - but I think the
person with the problem is using OS/2 clients, which don't.

Jeremy.