Re: bin/39308: sort +1n failure

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39308; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/39308: sort +1n failure 
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:14:11 +1000

 David Holland wrote:
 
 > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:25:00AM +0000, Simon Burge wrote:
 >  > >Description:
 >  >   "sort +1n" is failing to numerically sort the second field of a
 >  >   file.  Note that the input is important and very touchy.  The
 > 
 > See also PRs 37860, 36816, 30504, 30195, 27257, 25551, 24756, 24316,
 > 22182, 18614...
 
 I should have mentioned that I tried the patch in bin/30504 but it
 did have any effect on this problem.
 
 Cheers,
 Simon.