I have an application that has to pick up files that are posted to a
directory. These files have to be handled on a first come, first serve
basis. I would therefore like to continuously loop through the directory, to
always pick up the file with the earliest creation date (after processing it
is moved from the directory).
I can not seem to find an efficient method of doing this. I would like to
use something like FindFirstFile and FindNextFile however those api's search
alpahbetically.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can do this?

Thanks in advance.

Shoshana

Not precisely. FindFirstFile/FindNextFile do not
have a defined order in which files are returned.

They come back alphabetically from an NTFS volume
because of how NT stores directory information,
but it's still undefined.

Your best bet is to buffer all file names, and sort
manually.