Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:46:04 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sort(1) memory usage Message-ID: <20080203174604.GM1179@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <86lk62kqeh.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <8663x6mc2o.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080203131322.GK1179@hoeg.nl> <20080203151550.GA67020@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <86prvekqs2.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86lk62kqeh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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* Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> Count this as a vote for ditching GNU sort in favor of a BSD-licensed
> implementation (from {Net,Open}BSD for instance).
I just looked at the OpenBSD implementation and I can see it already
misses one option that some people will miss, namely numeric sorting
(-g). I don't know anything about NetBSD's implementation or how hard it
is to add.
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Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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