[Vorbis-dev] adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?

[Ray Kohler]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:
> On 1 March 2010 12:07, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would a patch to ogg123 for using scandir(3) and alphasort(3) instead
>> of opendir(3) and readdir(3) in playlist_append_directory() be
>> accepted, or are those not sufficiently portable? On Linux,
>> _SVID_SOURCE or _BSD_SOURCE is required to use them. This shouldn't be
>> hard to implement and I'd like very much to have directories added to
>> the playlist in sorted order.
>
> could you add a configure check for those functions, and if not
> present then fall back to the existing behaviour?

That's certainly possible to do. If it turns out that no platform we
care about is missing them, then I'd like to avoid it, as it would
make for a bigger patch. I'm willing to do it anyway if it's the right
thing to do, and there's somebody interested in actually taking such a
patch.