docs/54391: Document that glob(3) respects LC_COLLATE

Thomas Seck tmseck at netcologne.de
Fri Jul 11 18:30:16 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR docs/54391; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Seck <tmseck at netcologne.de>
To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/54391: Document that glob(3) respects LC_COLLATE
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:20:44 +0200

 * Tom Rhodes (trhodes at FreeBSD.org):
 
 > On 11 Jul 2003 17:41:02 -0000
 > Thomas Seck <tmseck at netcologne.de> wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > 	+By default, the pathnames are sorted in locale specific ascending order
 > 
 > 
 > "sorted by locale in ascending order"?
 
 Hm, I am not a native speaker but this does not sound right to me. SUSv3
 uses "...according to the current setting of the LC_COLLATE
 category..." and it is qsort(3) that actually does the sorting. But I
 admit that my suggestion sounds a bit awkward.
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Thomas Seck



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