GNU bug report logs - #70231
Performance issue on sort with zero-sized pseudo files

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Takashi Kusumi <tkusumi <at> zlab.co.jp>

Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 06:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 70231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 Takashi Kusumi <tkusumi <at> zlab.co.jp>, 70231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70231: Performance issue on sort with zero-sized pseudo files
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 15:22:17 -0700
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 2024-04-06 03:09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I'll apply this.

Heh, I beat you to it by looking for similar errors elsewhere and 
applying the attached patches to fix the issues I found. None of them 
look like serious bugs.

> BTW we should improve sort buffer handling in general

Oh yes.

PS. My current little task is to get i18n to work better with 'sort'. 
Among other things I want Unicode-style full case folding.
[0001-cat-don-t-trust-st_size-on-proc-files.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0002-dd-don-t-trust-st_size-on-proc-files.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0003-sort-don-t-trust-st_size-on-proc-files.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0004-split-don-t-trust-st_size-on-proc-files.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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