Hi, I've just encountered one of the strangest bugs I've seen in Linux..
Just like an amateur Operating System, one of the core unix tools - sort - behaves different on different Linux (or more correct: sort) versions. When I try to sort the next input: ab c a c It makes sense that 'a c' would come before 'ab c', and this is how it works with coreutils 5.0. But on an older version (I'm not sure that in ALL the older versions - actually textutils 2.0.21 works well) the results are vice versa. This really sucks.. A basic unix tool did not work the way it should, and one day they just change the way it works, a simple act which might affect MANY programs that relate on this. I've experienced a related problem with autofs (check out the sort command in /etc/auto.net), but that's just one place it might happen. - Oren ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
