sort is broken

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <eec0b13b-b5d6-7e51-6241-8e1898150315 at queldor.net>, you wrote:

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>On 11/2/19 5:14 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Not a question, just an expression of grief and deep dismay.
>> 
>> It is a sad day when even very fundamental tools, used in billions
>> of scripts, such as /usr/bin/sort turn up broken.
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>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241679
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>> Regards,
>> rfg
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>root at q4:/ # sort a
>zürich.email
>root at q4:/ # sort < a
>zürich.email
>root at q4:/ # uname -a
>FreeBSD q4.queldor.net 12.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC 
>amd64
>root at q4:/ # cat a
>zürich.email
>root at q4:/ #
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>Seems to be fine on my 12.0

Well, I guess it's just me then...

% uname -a
FreeBSD segfault.tristatelogic.com 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE r341666 GENERIC  amd64
% sort --version
2.3-FreeBSD


What version of sort do you have?