Subject: Re: I can't count, can someone help me with this?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/02/2003 04:32:04
Free and NetBSD don't make this mistake, have good licenses
and it might just be easier to look at that code.

or better, it's a purely application layer thing, swipe
sort from another BSD and make it so whoever does sort
work can move onto something that's not being done well
elsewhere.


Quoting Peter Seebach (seebs@plethora.net):
> $ sort -n
> -5
> 0
> 5
> ^D
> 
> I get "0, -5, 5".
> 
> I am almost sure that 0 is actually *between* -5 and 5.
> 
> Is this a bug in sort, or a bug in me?
> 
> -s