sort(1) memory usage

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> We had been using a BSD-licensed sort(1), but ache@ changed it back to
> GNU sort several years ago. Anyone know why? If I had to guess I'd say
> i18n [...]

That is my recollection as well.  We would do well to take a look at the
code (and CVS logs) from NetBSD; they may have solved the i18n issues by
now.

There may also be a few missing features: someone mentioned -g, which is
apparently similar to yet somehow different from -n, in weird and
wonderful ways which the authors did not bother documenting.  Last I
checked, it also (rather surprisingly) lacked -u (unique), which is
required by POSIX.

DES
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