Thanks, I'll mention this to them. Bye, Jojo
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 5:44 PM To: Joachim Schmitz Cc: 'Bruno Haible'; bug-gnulib@gnu.org Subject: Re: alphasort on HP-NonStop On 12/28/2010 01:59 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote: > I see that gnulib uses strcoll() rather than strcmp(), which seems to be what > POSIX mandates. > I'll request a bug fix for these issues from HP NonStop development... When you do that, you might tell them that there's a possible time bomb there. (I presume that NonStop developers prefer to avoid time bombs. :-) If strcoll fails and set errno == EINVAL, then POSIX allows alphasort to return any value it likes, which means that if NonStop's qsort requires a total ordering, their scandir cannot call qsort. They can avoid the problem either by having a strcoll that never fails, or by having a qsort that does not require a total ordering, or by having a scandir that does not invoke qsort.
