Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:04:35 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sort(1) memory usage Message-ID: <86myqgepa4.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20080204145534.GA40490@VARK.MIT.EDU> (David Schultz's message of "Mon\, 4 Feb 2008 09\:55\:34 -0500") 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> <20080204145534.GA40490@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > We had been using a BSD-licensed sort(1), but ache@ changed it back to > GNU sort several years ago. Anyone know why? If I had to guess I'd say > i18n [...] That is my recollection as well. We would do well to take a look at the code (and CVS logs) from NetBSD; they may have solved the i18n issues by now. There may also be a few missing features: someone mentioned -g, which is apparently similar to yet somehow different from -n, in weird and wonderful ways which the authors did not bother documenting. Last I checked, it also (rather surprisingly) lacked -u (unique), which is required by POSIX. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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