Michael Stone wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Michael Stone wrote: >>> you wrote: >>>> $: sort -um -o list list work >>> >>> I'll look at the segfault, but I'm not sure that was ever guaranteed to give >>> a useful result (you're overwriting an input file). >> >> Yes, it works nicely in stable release (hence the notfound usage) so it >> qualifies as a regression IMO. > > I didn't say it didn't work, I said "I'm not sure that was ever > guaranteed to give a useful result".
In this case it is guaranteed to provide a meaning result. Both traditional implementations and POSIX require -o to buffer output so that it can also be an input file. (I think that is virtually the entire reason for the -o instead of simply using output redirection.) http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sort.html -o output Specify the name of an output file to be used instead of the standard output. This file can be the same as one of the input files. In any case it shouldn't segfault. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
