When I upgraded one of our machines to RedHat 6.2, I discovered that sort version 2.0a with "-n" option is broken. Below is a typescript showing the misbehavior as well as the correct behavior of version 2.0. The new machine is identified as rh-6.2, the old one as rh-6.1. Other observations: The sort program also runs much slower than normal when exhibiting this bug. The misbehavior goes away if the input lines have leading space. Script started on Tue May 30 09:36:50 2000 rh-6.2:~> uname -a Linux rh-6.2 2.2.14-12 #1 Tue Apr 25 13:04:07 EDT 2000 i686 unknown rh-6.2:~> sort --version sort (GNU textutils) 2.0a Written by Mike Haertel. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. rh-6.2:~> cat randnos.10 24 865 21 128 158 59 718 729 878 442 rh-6.2:~> sort -n randnos.10 442 158 865 24 128 21 718 59 878 729 rh-6.2:~> exit Script done on Tue May 30 09:37:10 2000 Script started on Tue May 30 09:36:37 2000 rh-6.1:~> uname -a Linux rh-6.1.dsm.fordham.edu 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 i586 unknown rh-6.1:~> sort --version sort (GNU textutils) 2.0 Written by Mike Haertel. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. rh-6.1:~> sort -n randnos.10 21 24 59 128 158 442 718 729 865 878 rh-6.1:~> exit Script done on Tue May 30 09:36:58 2000 -- Bob Moniot Fordham University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fordham College Lincoln Center URL: http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/ New York, NY 10023 phone: (212) 636-6311
