From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 2 11:26:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A86837B416 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:26:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id fB2JQJr02842; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:26:19 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB2Dhh036928; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:43:43 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200112021343.fB2Dhh036928@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. References: <20011202130804.GA61024@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011202130804.GA61024@nagual.pp.ru> ; from "Andrey A. Chernov" "Sun, 02 Dec 2001 16:08:04 +0300." Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 13:43:43 +0000 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > And if so, _will_ you do it? :-) > > Yes, but it may takes some amount of time, it will be not easy patch as > for GNU sort. OK - so if I were to import it, but not link it to the "real" build (IE, it is off by default), that will give you a chance to work on it, no? > BTW, what exactly is urgent in sort replacement idea? As I see by first > look, BSD sort as designed will be somewhat faster, but needs lots of > temporary files comparing to GNU sort. The next thing we need to check > _before_ switch efforts is its POSIX conformance. Agreed. I'm not in any hurry - I just happen to have some time at the moment :-) M -- o Mark Murray \_ FreeBSD Services Limited O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message