Bug#406785: Not a bug in coreutils but busybox

[Goswin Brederlow]

Package: coreutils
Followup-For: Bug #406785

reassign 406785 busybox
tag 406785 + patch
thanks

Hi,

the sort documentation says:
| By default, fields are separated by the empty string between a
| non-blank character and a blank character.

So the leading whitespace before a field is part of that field and gnu
sort correctly does that. 

This (busybox) is my fault. I thought the whitespace would be the
seperator.  Attached is a patch for busybox do to the same.

MfG
        Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-frosties
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                      2.2.41-1    Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.32-3      SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

diff -u busybox-1.1.3/coreutils/sort.c busybox-1.1.3/coreutils/sort.c
--- busybox-1.1.3/coreutils/sort.c
+++ busybox-1.1.3/coreutils/sort.c
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@
                                while(str[end]) {
                                        if(key_separator) {
                                                if(str[end++]==key_separator) 
break;
-                                       } else if(isspace(str[end++])) break;
+                                       } else {
+                                               if(isspace(str[end])) break;
+                                               end++;
+                                       }
                                }
                        }
                }