On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:20:07AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2015-03-15, Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:29:21 -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >
> >> I think the consensus was to try and replace it with another version but
> >> not sure what happened.
> >
> > I have a port of the FreeBSD sort but it is slower than our current
> > sort (and slower than GNU sort).
>
> Personally I think that is a reasonable trade-off for more actively
> developed code, and when I tried it on some difficult files it coped
> better than our current sort (not that this small sample means much
> in terms of "ability to handle every difficult file").
Current sort(1) is unmaintanable in many ways. I say switch.
-Otto
