On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Chris Pickett
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a small wish list for libast
> 1. sfopenat(), which does sfopen() with the extra arguments of
> openat() to access files relative to a directory fd and NFS version 4
> XATTR files.
>
>
> 2. AST sort should have these two options for GNU+OSX sort compatibility:
> -b, --ignore-leading-blanks  ignore leading blanks
> -z, --zero-terminated     end lines with 0 byte, not newline
> (conflicts with AST sort -z, can the AST sort option be renamed?)
>
> For Solaris /usr/bin/sort option -S compatibility:
>     -S kmem         Specifies the maximum amount  of  swap-based
>                     memory  used  for sorting, in kilobytes (the
>                     default unit). kmem can  also  be  specified
>                     directly as a number of bytes (b), kilobytes
>                     (k), megabytes (m), gigabytes (g), or  tera-
>                     bytes  (t);  or  as  a percentage (%) of the
>                     installed physical memory.
> This conflicts with AST sort -S, can the AST sort option be renamed to
> avert conflict?

+1
I like the idea that AST sort could be used as drop in replacement for
the old Solaris /usr/bin/sort...

Irek
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