[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Fix for file list sorting for FAT32 formatted flash drives in Journal.

[James Cameron]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:21:11AM -0400, Kenny Meyer wrote:
> Bernie, and I have had a special situation where a flash drive, which
> has been formatted on Windows with (apparently) a FAT32 file-system.
> Some of the files on the flash drive had a negative `changetime`,
> which resulted in automatically making the `changetime` of type long,
> whereas the sort() function expected an integer.

Fascinating.  Have you a way to change the changetime from Linux to
achieve the same result?  I'd like to test.

> This behaviour was reproduced on sugar-0.84.16. Should be backported
> to older versions. [?]

What is the effect of the bug on 0.82?  (Maybe it explains a
long-standing problem we have).

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James Cameron
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