On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:13:42AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thus, this is not bug of either glibc or coreutils. Paul, how do you > > think about this? > > Your analysis sounds good to me. Thanks.
Taken as a whole though, the behaviour of the system does voliate the principle of least surprise, which would imply that sort should either produce the result that the documentation would imply given the options that that the user selected, or should return a nonzero exit status. Having said this, I don't disagree with Masanori's analysis either. Regards and thanks, James. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
