+/* Sort the array currently in the stack. We do this to make the output
+ * of commands like KEYS or SMEMBERS something deterministic when called
+ * from Lua (to play well with AOf/replication).
+ *
+ * The array is sorted using table.sort itself, and assuming all the
+ * list elements are strings. */
+void luaSortArray(lua_State *lua) {
+ /* Initial Stack: array */
+ lua_getglobal(lua,"table");
+ lua_pushstring(lua,"sort");
+ lua_gettable(lua,-2); /* Stack: array, table, table.sort */
+ lua_pushvalue(lua,-3); /* Stack: array, table, table.sort, array */
+ if (lua_pcall(lua,1,0,0)) {
+ /* Stack: array, table, error */
+
+ /* We are not interested in the error, we assume that the problem is
+ * that there are 'false' elements inside the array, so we try
+ * again with a slower function but able to handle this case, that
+ * is: table.sort(table, __redis__compare_helper) */
+ lua_pop(lua,1); /* Stack: array, table */
+ lua_pushstring(lua,"sort"); /* Stack: array, table, sort */
+ lua_gettable(lua,-2); /* Stack: array, table, table.sort */
+ lua_pushvalue(lua,-3); /* Stack: array, table, table.sort, array */
+ lua_getglobal(lua,"__redis__compare_helper");
+ /* Stack: array, table, table.sort, array, __redis__compare_helper */
+ lua_call(lua,2,0);
+ }
+ /* Stack: array (sorted), table */
+ lua_pop(lua,1); /* Stack: array (sorted) */
+}
+