Sort order in directory globs #135

2012-04-03T03:45:54Z

tddium commented

2012-04-03 03:45:54 +00:00

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Hello,

The order in which Jasmine headless webkit loads files specified on jasmine.yml is file system dependent.
On MacOS X, HFS+ guarantees that directory entries are read in sorted order (http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/#technotes/tn/tn1150.html). This is not the case with other Unix filesystems such as ext2/ext3/ext4 under Linux. The inconsistency in load order results in a test suite that works in one place (e.g. on a Mac) but the same suite fails due to load order problems in another (e.g. on a Linux box). In fact, the results can differ from one copy of a suite to another on the same Linux box depending on the sequence of file create, remove, etc. calls in each copy. A simple solution is to sort the results of expanding a directory glob so that the results are consistent across platforms.

Hello, The order in which Jasmine headless webkit loads files specified on jasmine.yml is file system dependent. On MacOS X, HFS+ guarantees that directory entries are read in sorted order (http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/#technotes/tn/tn1150.html). This is not the case with other Unix filesystems such as ext2/ext3/ext4 under Linux. The inconsistency in load order results in a test suite that works in one place (e.g. on a Mac) but the same suite fails due to load order problems in another (e.g. on a Linux box). In fact, the results can differ from one copy of a suite to another on the same Linux box depending on the sequence of file create, remove, etc. calls in each copy. A simple solution is to sort the results of expanding a directory glob so that the results are consistent across platforms.

recurser commented

2012-04-03 08:54:28 +00:00

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+1

johnbintz commented

2012-04-03 13:50:56 +00:00

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Thanks!

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