bug#42211: Problem in sort

2020-07-04 Thread Richard Freedman
When I use sort -n -c on a specified column in a file sort reports an error and then stops if two numbers are exactly the same. I want the sort to find actual sort errors, i.e. number (n+1) < number(n). This negates the use of sort -n -c on large files to find files that are actually out of orde

bug#41634: 'timeout' returning 124 and 133

2020-07-04 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 2020-07-04 00:57, Jonny Grant wrote: > May I ask if that exit status 137 could be clarified as 128+9, where 9 is > the KILL signal number in this example please. I've pasted a patch below. Thanks for the patch - this is always a great basis for discussions. Well, this 128+9 arithmetic is expla

bug#42187: coreutils man page

2020-07-04 Thread Jonny Grant
Hello Just looking at this man page. I appreciate not the latest version. GNU coreutils 8.32 https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html Could it be clarified that a timeout DURATION of 0 also specifically inhibits the -k, --kill-after=DURATION ? it's implied as "this long after