Bug #75309 [Com]: Iterators are no longer alphabetical

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75309&edit=1 ID: 75309 Comment by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Reported by: james at bluebaytravel dot co dot uk Summary: Iterators are no longer alphabetical Status: Feedback Type: Bug Package: SPL related Operating System: Ubuntu PHP Version: 7.1.10 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: fact is that no documentation says anything about ordering and so you rely on undefined behavior fact is that readdir() on windows has sorted results and on Linux it don't which proves that php itself never sorted anything which is a good thing because it would waste performance for cases where it don't matter at all Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-10-05 09:59:40] james at bluebaytravel dot co dot uk It's always been in order previously... I can't see an obvious reason as to why Ubuntu would've changed the behaviour? I use Laravel Homestead and am able to go back to a prior version and see the expected results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-10-04 13:49:41] danack@php.net What makes you think the order is guaranteed? I'm pretty certain there is no code inside PHP to sort directory iterators internally, or for any of the other filesystem functions. The order of directory entries is controller by your underlying operating system, which is free to return whatever order it feels like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-10-04 13:33:56] james at bluebaytravel dot co dot uk Description: ------------ In PHP 7.1.10 iterators are no longer iterating through results alphabetically. PHP 7.1.8 is the last version I've been able to see the expected result on (I've not been able to test anything later). In our code, we have a folder with ,php files in there and two sub-folders (Api and Dashboard) containing more .php files. In PHP 7.1.8 the test script iterators through them alphabetically but in PHP 7.1.10 the Api sub-folder is listed at the end of the iterator. Test script: --------------- $directoryIterator = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path); $routeIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($directoryIterator); $routes = new RegexIterator($routeIterator, '/^.+\.php$/i', RecursiveRegexIterator::GET_MATCH); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75309&edit=1