Peter > sort fails for me on the attached file. Here is all the version > information:
Thanks for the report and for supplying all of the needed version information. That was great. > [urbi@lsec2 oracle]$ sort --version > sort (GNU textutils) 2.0e > > [urbi@lsec2 oracle]$ uname -a > Linux lsec2.epfl.ch 2.2.19-7.0.1 #1 Tue Apr 10 01:56:16 EDT 2001 i686 > unknown > [urbi@lsec2 oracle]$ sort lof > Segmentation fault (core dumped) Initially I was not able to recreate your problem. It worked fine for me using exactly the same version of sort, version 2.0e. But then I remembered the common problem that people have with LANG. sort lof [...works fine...] LANG=POSIX sort lof [...works fine...] LANG=en_US sort lof Segmentation fault You probably have LANG set to the en_US locale. Therefore I will forward you a canned reply concerning locale variables. Usually those will cause sort to produce incorrect output, not to crash. It does seem that regardless of locale setting that sort should not seg fault. Something to look into. Thanks Bob ================================================================ Thanks for the report. It matches a common pattern. This is not due to a bug, but to the fact that you or your vendor have set environment variables that direct the program to use locale specific sorting tables which do not sort as you expect. You or your vendor have probably set environment variables like LANG, LC_ALL, or LANG to en_US. There appears to be a problem with that table on some systems which is not part of the GNU program but part of your vendor's system release. Unset them, and then set LC_ALL to POSIX # If you use bash or some other Bourne-based shell, export LC_ALL=POSIX # If you use a C-shell, setenv LC_ALL POSIX and it will then work the way you expect because it will use a different set of tables. See the standards documentation for more information on the locale variables. http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/sort.html _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
