Hi Sergey, > Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The PATH shows the commercial product CoSort is installed. This can > > replace AIX's normal sort. It's intended to be faster. > > Ah, thanks for the explanation. > > > I suspect it spews stats to stderr, possibly switchable. The user > > needs to improve his AIX environment, at least when building > > external software. > > Well, I guess so. He reported later that using native sort solved the > problem, yet I think we'd better be prepared for such cases in the > future.
No, I'm sorry, but I disagree. sort's stderr is silent unless there's a problem. There's no expected problem so stderr shouldn't be discarded; it weakens the test. Not discarding may cause problems on the < 0.01% of platforms where sort spews crap on stderr but that shows a platform problem, not a tar one, and it would bite more than just tar so tar shouldn't work around it. More valuable would be the stderr output where there is a genuine problem that needs tackling, but that would be lost. It's a slippery slope down which lies coping with other odd-ball behaviour by one-man-and-his-grep. Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list Bug-tar@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
