coreutils/src/sort.c, branch v8.4

maint: update all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010

2010-01-01T13:06:47Z

Use this command: git ls-files | grep -v COPYING \ | xargs env UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=1 \ build-aux/update-copyright

sort: fix failure if sort's parent has ignored SIGCHLD

2009-12-08T15:29:27Z

* src/sort.c (main): Reset the SIGCHLD handler to the default as otherwise wait() could return an error. * tests/misc/sort-compress: Set the CHLD handler in a subshell to SIG_IGN to ensure the sort command resets it to SIG_DFL. * NEWS: Mention the fix.

build: fix link failure on cygwin

2009-11-24T13:36:07Z

Cygwin 1.5 has a broken sleep, and the gnulib tests dragged in rpl_sleep which then caused a link failure because it wasn't in libcoreutils.a. We could solve it by using the gnulib sleep module. However, sleep and usleep may interact poorly with SIGALRM, and they have less granularity; so it is better to adopt a policy that if we must sleep, prefer xnanosleep. * src/sort.c (pipe_fork): Use xnanosleep, to avoid the need for rpl_sleep on cygwin, and to reduce granularity. (MAX_FORK_TRIES_COMPRESS, MAX_FORK_TRIES_DECOMPRESS): Increase, to account for reduction in granularity. * src/tail.c (tail_file): Use xnanosleep in debug code. * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_sleep): New rule.

maint: Use logical rather than bitwise operators on bools

2009-09-23T13:33:40Z

This is because bitwise operators are: - confusing and inconsistent in a boolean context - non short circuiting - brittle in C89 where bool can be an int (so > 1)

doc: mention the texinfo documentation in --help

2009-09-21T11:37:57Z

* src/system.h: Rename emit_bug_reporting_address() to emit_ancillary_info() and update it to not print the translation project address in en_* locales, and _do_ print it in the 'C' (and other) locales so that it's included in the default man page. Also mention how to invoke the texinfo documentation for each command. Also move the "hard-locale.h" include to the 8 files that now use it. * man/help2man: Strip the newly added texinfo reference from the --help output as a more verbose version is already added by help2man. Suggestion from C de-Avillez

global: convert indentation-TABs to spaces

2009-08-25T07:21:00Z

sort: use more portable initialization syntax

2009-08-18T09:02:36Z

* src/sort.c (find_unit_order): Spell out 256-element static initializer, rather than relying on C99 syntax. Required for Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 on Solaris 10. Reported by Bernhard Voelker.

sort: allow SI and IEC units on separate human sort fields

2009-07-03T16:00:55Z

* src/sort.c: Store the si_present state per key rather than globally * tests/misc/sort: Add a check that would have previously failed. Also add a test to demonstrate that invalid IEC/SI mixtures are not always noticed when they're not significant to the sort.

sort: Ignore fields where end position is before the start position

2009-06-13T00:25:06Z

* NEWS: Mention the fix * THANKS: Add Cliff Miller * src/sort.c (keycompare): Ensure lima >= texta * tests/misc/sort: Add 3 corresponding tests Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady

sort: die immediately upon heap allocation failure

2009-06-07T11:58:24Z

* src/sort.c (register_proc): Handle hash_insert failure.