bug#7597: multi-threaded sort can segfault (unrelated to the sort -u segfault)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 16/12/10 22:06, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/12/10 07:41, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> There are also some test cases I need to add for the
>>> (unrelated) sort-compression bug, which is next on my
>>> list of coreutils bugs to look at.
>>
>> It would be great to fix that for 8.8, too,
>> but don't worry if you don't get to it soon.
> 
> I've fixed that now, with the patch enclosed

>From a quick inspection, it looks good!

All sort tests pass on 32 bit.

$ time (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/sort-compress-hang 
RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes VERBOSE=yes)
PASS: misc/sort-compress-hang

real    1m53.543s
user    0m18.475s
sys     1m5.758s

cheers,
Pádraig.