EXTERNAL: Re: sort utility goes berzerk (x86_64)

[Houder]

On 2017-11-28 16:42, Wells, Roger K. wrote:

> On 11/28/2017 04:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen 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,
[snip]

>> and then returns to the prompt.
> Same here, at least using bash

Thank you to all. It is clear to me that I am the only one having this
weird behavior.

Henri

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