[redirecting to bug-gnulib] On 06/02/2010 01:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 06/01/2010 09:51 PM, River Tarnell wrote: >> I'm using coreutils 8.5 on Solaris 10. >> >> GNU 'sort' fails to sort some input, while Solaris 'sort' handles it >> correctly: > > Amusingly enough, on that same test case I found the same problem > with GNU 'sort' that you did, but I also found that Solaris 'sort' > reports that it runs out of memory, even in 64-bit mode. For example: > > 1010-kiwi $ LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 /usr/bin/sparcv9/sort sort_test.txt > sort: insufficient memory; use -S option to increase allocation > 1011-kiwi $ LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 coreutils-8.5/src/sort sort_test.txt > coreutils-8.5/src/sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence > coreutils-8.5/src/sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem. > coreutils-8.5/src/sort: The strings compared were > `\360\222\203\276\360\222\205\226' and > `\360\222\200\255\360\222\213\253\360\222\213\253\360\222\200\255'. > > I expect that the exact failure mode probably depends on the > locale (and/or whether you're using x86 or sparc), > and that GNU 'sort' checks for strcoll failures but > Solaris 'sort' does not (and thus crashes). If my guess is right, > this appears to be a bug in the Solaris strcoll implementation. > I don't see a simple workaround. You might file a bug report > with Sun.
And in the meantime, now that we've confirmed that it is a Solaris strcoll() bug, it would be nice to code a gnulib workaround. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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