From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 9: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAA237BBE3; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crandall@matchlogic.com) Received: by houston.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:06:13 -0600 Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B301301C77B30@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Kris Kennaway Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh , Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: BSD sort(1) (Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD?) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:06:09 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How does the performance of Open/NetBSD's sort compare with GNU sort? Charles -----Original Message----- From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group [mailto:Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 4:19 PM To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group; obrien@FreeBSD.org; Warner Losh; Nate Williams; arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD sort(1) (Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD?) In message , Kri s Kennaway writes: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > One of the things on my todo list is to build a 4.4BSD sort port [I'm a > > poet and don't even know it :) ] which would have the features of GNU > > sort but with a BSD license and hopefully not the bug I found 5 years > > ago. > > Open and NetBSD use a modified 4.4BSD sort(1) Seems like the path of least resistance for now. I'll check it out. Thanks. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message