numeric sort(1) is broken on -STABLE

[Kazuaki ODA]

On 2010/02/10 17:58, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> not sure if this is a pilot error, but it seems to me that gnu sort -n
> is broken on at least -STABLE (couldn't test -CURRENT yet).
>
> It somehow does not manifest when using a simple list and sorting on a
> specific column, but it always happens to me when using it in
> combination with find(1).
>
> % truncate -s10m a; truncate -s5m b; truncate -s800k c
> % find a b c -ls|sort -nk7,7
>       8       64 -rw-r--r--    1 uqs              wheel            10485760 Feb 10 09:13 a
>      10       64 -rw-r--r--    1 uqs              wheel             5242880 Feb 10 09:13 b
>      12       64 -rw-r--r--    1 uqs              wheel              819200 Feb 10 09:13 c
> % find a b c -ls|sort -gk7,7
>      12       64 -rw-r--r--    1 uqs              wheel              819200 Feb 10 09:13 c
>      10       64 -rw-r--r--    1 uqs              wheel             5242880 Feb 10 09:13 b
>       8       64 -rw-r--r--    1 uqs              wheel            10485760 Feb 10 09:13 a

Hi, here is a patch I've submitted about 4 years ago...
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=gnu/93566

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