On 08/06/11 21:16, Mina Naguib wrote: > > I've observed a few instances when `sort` simply "hangs" and never returns > the sorted data.
> In my case, I think I'll downgrade coreutils back down to 8.5 as well as > disable all tools from invoking it with "--compress-program" to get > predictable non-hanging behaviour across the board. coreutils 8.6 got the threaded sort implementation, so maybe that's triggering an obscure bug. If you were on a multi processor machine, you could restrict `sort` to a single thread by adding the --parallel=1 option. It's worth absolving that I think. thanks for the very detailed bug report, Pádraig.
