Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > "Treat the input as a set of lines, each terminated by a null character > (ASCII NUL) instead of a line feed (ASCII LF)."
I mentioned this as a documentation problem. (I changed mail subject.) More correct would be "Treat the input and generate the output...". > > GNU sort -z does: > > use NUL instead of EOL on input and output > > Does this not follow as a corollary of the documentation? The way I read > it, -z tells sort to "use NUL instead of LF". > > Do you see the NUL/LF as a separator or end-marker? Yes, this is logical (and only usable) behavior. But documentation mentions only "input", so one may be in doubt... > > Note that implementing it as documented would break GNU findutils > > updatedb, as happens with busybox. > > Agreed, busybox appears to handle -z differently. ...as probably were authors of busybox. Their implementation does exactly what GNU sort info page writes about -z. http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=1591 -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
