As I wrote you privately last month, the coreutils maintainers (who are
not me) are pretty busy. The proposed change in bug#47883 would be
incompatible with longstanding tradition and would almost certainly
break some existing scripts running on GNU/Linux. This is not something
to do lightly.
On 2021/04/21 19:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 4/18/21 10:46 AM, Peter van Dijk wrote:
While the manual (but not the manpage) mentions the data loss, I
think it would be great if sort did not have this problem at all, and
I think the OpenGroup text also says it should not have this problem.
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