Re: sort -g bug

[Paul Eggert]

Seemant Kulleen <address@hidden> writes:

> There's a bug in all coreutils versions higher than 5.0; essentially,
> sort -g on a file larger than 25 MB (I tested on a 50MB file -- cat'd
> /usr/share/dict/words onto itself 10 times).

I can't reproduce the bug on my host (coreutils 5.2.1, Debian
GNU/Linux 3.0r1 x86).

> The other bug is explained here: 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44403

The patch in that bug doesn't apply to coreutils 5.2.1.

> The patch there is a very simple one, and seems to be ok for us (note
> that we do apply the i18n patch that's distributed at i18n.org).

Given the above, I'd guess that the bug is in the i18n patch
somewhere.  You can test this theory by trying to run unpatched
coreutils 5.2.1.