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multi-threaded sort can segfault (unrelated to the sort -u segfault)

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Chen Guo <chen.guo.0625 <at> gmail.com>, bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, DJ Lucas <dj <at> linuxfromscratch.org>, coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#7597: multi-threaded sort can segfault (unrelated to the sort -u segfault)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:04:25 -0800

My recent patch had a typo in a comment, which I fixed as follows:

From 7e9599422e85be01dfceecf1f38ff2c2952a3f61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:02:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] tests: typo fix

* tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem: Fix typo in comment.
---
 tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem b/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem
index 8ad60ed..2955e22 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem
+++ b/tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ test "$(nproc)" = 1 && skip_ "requires a multi-core system"
   framework_failure_
 
 # With the bug, 'sort' would fail under valgrind about half the time,
-# on some circa-2010 multicore Linux platforms.  Run the test 10 times
+# on some circa-2010 multicore Linux platforms.  Run the test 100 times
 # so that the probability of missing the bug should be about 1 in
 # 2**100 on these hosts.
 for i in $(seq 100); do
-- 
1.7.2

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