From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 2 5: 0:27 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 AE36F37B41D for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 05:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id fB2D0Cf61959; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:00:12 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 fB2D06036554; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:00:06 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200112021300.fB2D06036554@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. References: <20011202124701.GA60816@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011202124701.GA60816@nagual.pp.ru> ; from "Andrey A. Chernov" "Sun, 02 Dec 2001 15:47:02 +0300." Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 13:00:06 +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 > Just check it. Cool! > BSD sort provide byte by byte sorting, so will understand only one byte > collation sequences, if collation support will be added there. GNU sort is > a little different: sometimes it compares parts of string, not bytes, so > it will lead to longer collation sequences understanding. > > It is still possible to add one byte collation support to BSD sort, also > it will be harder than adding it to GNU sort, because whole collation > table must be builded first, before runtime comparison. So, can you do it? And if so, _will_ you do it? :-) 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