EXTERNAL: Re: sort utility goes berzerk (x86_64)

[Wells, Roger K.]

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
>

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