-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 3/5/2006 12:45 AM: > > I don't see any bugs. In one case it appears you're misunderstanding > the POSIX requirements; in the other I don't observe the symptoms > that you do.
I stand corrected. Sorry for the false alarm, GNU sort is correctly doing the specified behavior. > >> $ sort -n blah # lines with equal numeric keys should stay stable during >> sort > > Not so. Quoting from POSIX: > > Except when the -u option is specified, lines that otherwise > compare equal shall be ordered as if none of the options -d, -f, > -i, -n, or -k were present (but with -r still in effect, if it was > specified) and with all bytes in the lines significant to the > comparison. > > So lines with equal numeric keys are sorted by ASCII value, which > is the behavior you observed. Point taken. I missed that line in my first reading, since it was indented as though it applied only when -k was in effect. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEDtB/84KuGfSFAYARAr0YAKDXmTaQTBMm7CsRlEDBBXDVYy3WFACcCSNs ls6fIzhtrgHbmth4kFzUnkU= =Hzl/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
