sort in coreutils 5.2.1-23

[Dieter Demerre]

L.S.,

Hi,
I just installed SuSE 9.1 and discovered that the sort-function installed 
has a glich.

If I do

sort <<EOLIST
/      (everyone)
/stand (everyone)
/opt   (everyone)
/home  (everyone)
/usr   (everyone)
/var   (everyone)
/tmp   (everyone)
/disk  (everyone)
EOLIST

I get
<snip>
/disk  (everyone)
/      (everyone)
/home  (everyone)
/opt   (everyone)
/stand (everyone)
/tmp   (everyone)
/usr   (everyone)
/var   (everyone)
</snip>

Which is hardly what I would expect...

This is pretty serious since it occurs in the auto-mounting script, and 
all directories before '/' are not correctly mounted then...

I downloaded source from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/ and 
configured and compiled it on aforementioned installation, and the sort 
executable behaves exactly the same.

I'm fearing this comes from somewhere spaces (leading, or separating) that 
are ignored.

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