On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Hi guys, > > not sure if this is a pilot error, but it seems to me that gnu sort -n > is broken on at least -STABLE (couldn't test -CURRENT yet). > > It somehow does not manifest when using a simple list and sorting on a > specific column, but it always happens to me when using it in > combination with find(1). > > % truncate -s10m a; truncate -s5m b; truncate -s800k c > % find a b c -ls|sort -nk7,7 > 8 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 10485760 > Feb 10 09:13 a > 10 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 5242880 > Feb 10 09:13 b > 12 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 819200 > Feb 10 09:13 c
I bet you're using some non-C locale for LC_NUMERIC. What does "locale" output tell you? > % find a b c -ls|sort -gk7,7 > 12 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 819200 > Feb 10 09:13 c > 10 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 5242880 > Feb 10 09:13 b > 8 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 10485760 > Feb 10 09:13 a > > at least -g does what is expected and I can work around this for the time > being. Here's bsdsort > > % find a b c -ls|bsdsort -nk7,7 > 12 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 819200 > Feb 10 09:13 c > 10 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 5242880 > Feb 10 09:13 b > 8 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 uqs wheel 10485760 > Feb 10 09:13 a > > and this is on Solaris 8 > > % find a b c -ls|sort -nk7,7 > 546728 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 spoerul xxx 819200 Feb 10 09:49 c > 546727 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 spoerul xxx 5242880 Feb 10 09:48 b > 546724 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 spoerul xxx 10485760 Feb 10 09:48 a > > It even occured to me, that we don't have a sort regression suite under > tools/regression. Anyone know a place to find one with a suitable license? > > Regards, > Uli > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- Ruslan Ermilov [email protected] FreeBSD committer _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
