X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=PlcSbCDUEWOhj1hf AugGhT46QTHw/3Hcrf1OCocGhOhUkiSdEuCuMW/9Wx07zWYp+zB6wA6CS6aDFtXN nx/KxACf5rW/aehYeOA/pp7vXRRR/qZYCaBEoxFZvPLkMDTSuV2YrYUzA9bGWYdb w83bS5WvFlCPVkgm1cQbR63aqVM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=1kTD2XQHZ0ER4RcVDo2AX4 8W2EE=; b=NA3sIKchojeDx8rvx29IOkcRwgzM9dfhvSqUeTfgIz4Tk5x5yQoNHA O5iwh7Bf1/HxNlYTgH0xPGHMmsxgbhhcrxdHDQhsPLtln47Yzr6+aIV8ytF/RrAX +ie2I3w2R10agdkkkhmra4D/oJB/aTk5tW4aLr2p2Wkin/mDHVcdc= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=roger, PE, Roger, leidos X-HELO: EMP-EXED102.leidos.com Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: sort utility goes berzerk (x86_64) To: References: <177e9f9fe723eadd4a8e41e5e032d56d AT smtp-cloud9 DOT xs4all DOT net> <20171128090329 DOT GN547 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> From: "Wells, Roger K." Message-ID: <1f7bc3ed-7194-5d85-7f19-4ca6d8b3ad05@leidos.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:42:07 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171128090329.GN547@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 11/28/2017 04:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 28 08:21, Houder wrote: >> On 2017-11-25 14:23, Houder wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Anyone seeing this as well? sort goes berzerk on my system when piped >>> into >>> head (or less) when it is fed with a 'specially prepared' input file. >>> >>> - only happens on x86_64 >>> - does not happen for 'LC_COLLATE=C sort tt | head' >>> >>> 'specially prepared' input file? (see bottom of post). >> Anyone ** NOT ** seeing this? > Yes. I just tried it under tcsh and bash with 6000, 8000, and 8150 lines, > and it works for me. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 implies LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > but I also set LC_COLLATE explicitely and retried. sort tt | head > always prints > > abcde 1xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 2xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 3xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 4xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 5xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 6xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 7xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 8xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 9xxxxx0123456789 > abcde 10xxxxx0123456789 > > and then returns to the prompt. Same here, at least using bash > > Corinna > -- Roger Wells, P.E. leidos 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger DOT k DOT wells AT leidos DOT com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple