Re: sort behavior - Ubuntu problem?

2007-01-25 Thread The Wanderer
Kevin Scannell wrote: Wanderer, could you tell me what version of glibc you have? Here's mine: ii libc6-dev 2.4-1ubuntu12 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-9GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Heade Apparently Ubuntu is more

Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm probably going to change the documentation so that people will be less likely to depend on being able to run a separate program. To be precise, I'd like to document that the only valid values of

stat() order performance issues

2007-01-25 Thread Phillip Susi
I have noticed that performing commands such as ls ( even with -U ) and du in a Maildir with many thousands of small files takes ages to complete. I have investigated and believe this is due to the order in which the files are stat()ed. I believe that these utilities are simply stat()ing the

Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Dan Hipschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:08:18AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: I've checked in your changes, then changed NEWS a little: Great! Thanks :-) Additionally, I'm probably going to change the documentation so that people will be less likely to depend on