On 16/12/10 22:06, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/12/10 07:41, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Paul Eggert wrote: >>> There are also some test cases I need to add for the >>> (unrelated) sort-compression bug, which is next on my >>> list of coreutils bugs to look at. >> >> It would be great to fix that for 8.8, too, >> but don't worry if you don't get to it soon. > > I've fixed that now, with the patch enclosed
>From a quick inspection, it looks good! All sort tests pass on 32 bit. $ time (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/sort-compress-hang RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes VERBOSE=yes) PASS: misc/sort-compress-hang real 1m53.543s user 0m18.475s sys 1m5.758s cheers, Pádraig.