Ah, I see now. I suggest a different example in the info page, since:
* the example doesn't prevent my misunderstanding (it evaluates the same
either way)
* topological sorts are part of graph theory; I was trying to give a
topological ordering to a 'dot' graph file, by simply removing the '->'
arrows. There's a superficial similarity between the example and a dot
file.
Here's a simple clarified example:
For example
tsort <<EOF
a
b
c d
e f
b d c e
EOF
will be evaluated as the partial order pairs:
(a, b)
(c, d)
(e, f)
(b, d)
(c, e)
and will produce the output
a
b
c
d
e
f
Jim Meyering wrote:
Guillaume Bailey [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an example of the latest tsort producing invalid output. The
6.9 is over two years old.
The latest coreutils release is coreutils-6.11.
output clearly disobeys the partial ordering 'i k a h g j', because
a' precedes both 'i' and 'k'. There may be other errors.
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] toolDependencies]$ tsort << EOF
b k
b m
k m f
i b f
i k a h g j
b g c
h c
g d
h d
h e
h j l
c l
EOF
Thanks for the report, but you have misunderstood
tsort's input format. From "info tsort",
`tsort' reads its input as pairs of strings, separated by blanks,
indicating a partial ordering. The output is a total ordering that
corresponds to the given partial ordering.
Note the "as pairs of strings".
The placement of newline characters is irrelevant.
So the input above is equivalent to this:
b k b m k m f i b f i k a h g j b g c h c g d h d h e h j l c l
and this:
b k
b m
k m
f i
b f
i k
a h
g j
b g
c h
c g
d h
d h
e h
j l
c l
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