Jim Meyering wrote: > Who would have thought that including a few NaNs in the input to sort > would make it infloop. > > The original failure arose only when sort was reading from a pipe: > > yes -- -nan | head -156903 | sort -g > /dev/null > > But it's not always easy to reproduce. ... > [ I'm about to file the glibc bug ...
I've done that: RFE: strtold: do not include uninitialized bytes when converting "NaN" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13246
