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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:37:24 -0400
From:      Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        walt <wsheets@sbcglobal.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A different light, perhaps.
Message-ID:  <20020924043724.GA42592@carbon.slackerbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020924043407.GB20608@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <amohma$o1g$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3D8FDBC6.8030502@sbcglobal.net> <20020924041023.GA42231@carbon.slackerbsd.org> <20020924043407.GB20608@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:34:07PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:10:23AM -0400, Carl Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > Get rid of gnu-sort from contrib and use NetBSD's sort, which was
> > imported five months ago but apparently never incorporated into the
> > build process.
> 
> It was, briefly, but was backed out because it's not a sufficiently
> complete replacement for everyone's liking.
> 
> > Gnu-sort does not appear to understand +# arguments whereas NetBSD's
> > sort does.
> 
> It's actually a case of NetBSD's sort not disabling non-standard
> behaviour when you ask it to.

Right, okay.  But NetBSD's sort actually works.
-- 
Carl Schmidt

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