On 05/26/2014 10:00 PM, Azat Khuzhin wrote: >> So the issue here is that sort is allocating >> a large buffer up front thus impacting the fork(). >> Really sort(1) should be trying to avoid this issue >> in the first place, and the issue is already logged at: >> http://bugs.gnu.org/14752 > > Yes this is the same as I linked above. > Does any body have a patch for this, or should I start working on this?
I was waiting for a patch that didn't materialize. I'll have a look myself now. thanks, Pádraig.
