[perl #24418] Directory traversal order of File::Find different in 5.8.0

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This is a bug report for perl from dunhamd@pacbell.net,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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Apologies if this is seen twice.  I did not receive any acknowlegement
of the previous mail as I have with past bug reports.

This came up on comp.unix.solaris about replacing a 'find' call with a
perl program running File::Find.  Under 5.8.0, it appears that the
traversal order of subdirectories is not the same as that of 5.005_03
or the /bin/find program.  The latter two appear to use directory
order, 5.8.0 appears to reverse that.

This doesn't directly break anything I'm aware of, but it's not at all
what I expect.  If possible, I would imagine it should be done in
directory traversal order.  

$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 add      other        512 Nov  2 23:10 a/
drwxr-xr-x   2 add      other        512 Nov  2 23:10 b/
$ ls -f1
.
..
a
b
$ truss find . 2>&1 | grep chdir
chdir("./")                                     = 0
chdir("a/")                                     = 0
chdir("..")                                     = 0
chdir("b/")                                     = 0
chdir("..")                                     = 0
chdir("/server2/home/add/tmp2")                 = 0
$ truss perl -MFile::Find -e 'sub w {print $File::Find::name, "\n";} find(\&w, ".")' 2>&1 | grep chdir
chdir(".")                                      = 0
fchdir(3)                                       = 0
chdir("b")                                      = 0
chdir("..")                                     = 0
chdir("a")                                      = 0
chdir("/server2/home/add/tmp2")                 = 0
$ truss /usr/bin/perl -MFile::Find -e 'sub w {print $File::Find::name, "\n";} find(\&w, ".")' 2>&1 | grep chdir
chdir(".")                                      = 0
chdir("a")                                      = 0
chdir("..")                                     = 0
chdir("b")                                      = 0
chdir("..")                                     = 0
chdir("/server2/home/add/tmp2")                 = 0

/usr/bin/perl is version 5.005_03 built for i86pc-solaris (stock Sun
version included in Solaris 8).  'perl' is v5.8.0 built for
i86pc-solaris (and invoking this perlbug).

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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by add at Fri May  2 23:46:37 PDT 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=i86pc-solaris
    uname='sunos tracon 5.8 generic_108529-19 i86pc i386 i86pc '
    config_args='-Ui_db'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers='solaris2.8'
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' '
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G'

Locally applied patches:


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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /server2/home/add/lib/perl5
    /usr/site/perl-5.8.0/lib/i86pc-solaris
    /usr/site/perl-5.8.0/lib
    /usr/site/perl-5.8.0/lib/site_perl/i86pc-solaris
    /usr/site/perl-5.8.0/lib/site_perl
    /usr/site/perl-5.8.0/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/server2/home/add
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/server2/home/add/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/site/openssh-3.6.1-p1/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/dt/bin
    PERL5LIB=/server2/home/add/lib/perl5
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh



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Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
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