On 12/08/2015 03:25 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/08/2015 02:26 PM, Terry Farrah wrote: >> I have a tab-separated file that I think is already sorted on the first 3 >> columns. Here is a 2-line sample in a file named foo:
>> $ sort --version >> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.22 >> $ more /etc/*-release >> :::::::::::::: >> /etc/oracle-release >> :::::::::::::: >> Oracle Linux Server release 7.1 >> $ uname -r >> 3.8.13-68.1.2.el7uek.x86_64 > > I suspect that the most-likely culprit is a downstream vendor bug (it is > not the first time that vendor I18N patches have caused sort to > misbehave, where upstream is just fine). For example, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148347 > says that some builds of RHEL 7 coreutils 8.22 had a broken I18N patch > that calls strcoll() on too much of the subject line. And no wonder it felt like deja vu to me; I was the one that first helped diagnose the downstream vendor bug, more than a year ago: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-09/msg00085.html > But that's all the more I can point to - at this point, you'll have to > take it up with Oracle. <biased-opinion why='see my email address'> If your vendor still hasn't fixed things after all that time, maybe you should reconsider which vendor you use </biased-opinion> :) -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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