From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 27 14:43: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBF337B423; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fARFWG336259; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:32:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200111271532.fARFWG336259@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Mark Murray , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:53:31 +0200." <81939.1006872811@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:32:15 -0500 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 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:31:44 GMT, Mark Murray wrote: > > | I have locally replaced our sort with NETBSD's, and things are > | running just fine. > | > | OK to commit this? > > If you've tested the startup and periodic scripts locally, I think it's > fair to unleash it on -CURRENT and see if anyone bleeds. :-) Does it support a superset of GNU sort features? At one point, I would have gone really nuts if anyone took my sort -k away from me :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message