Thanks for that report, Bob!
I've added an autoconf run-test to work around that limitation.
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have run into a problem with sort not related to the collating
> sequence. :-) It turns out I found two things. This is the first
> part. Please fasten your seatbelt and hang on, I have a long message.
> Sorry about that but I had a lot to say. Please trim appropriately
> for any replies.
>
> While sorting a moderately big file on HP-UX 10.20 of around 200MB,
> the GNU textutils-2.0.14 sort needed to create temporary files for
> later merging. The program died with a rather confusing error message
> to the user. Note that '{' follows 'z'.
>
> /tmp/sort{12345: No such file or directory
>
> In sort.c it uses create_temp_file() it sets up a temp_dir[] and then
> adds /sortXXXXXX to it in traditional fashion to yield /tmp/sortXXXXXX
> for mkstemp("/tmp/sortXXXXXX"). All fine. More or less.
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