On Mar 16 11:36:08, o...@drijf.net wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:20:07AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > On 2015-03-15, Todd C. Miller <todd.mil...@courtesan.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:29:21 -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > >> I think the consensus was to try and replace it with another version but > > >> not sure what happened. > > > > > > I have a port of the FreeBSD sort but it is slower than our current > > > sort (and slower than GNU sort). > > > > Personally I think that is a reasonable trade-off for more actively > > developed code, and when I tried it on some difficult files it coped > > better than our current sort (not that this small sample means much > > in terms of "ability to handle every difficult file"). > > Current sort(1) is unmaintanable in many ways. I say switch.
Incidentally, reading up on UNIX history, I came across this: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6771921
