Sent too bug-coreutils too (no bug id currently AFAICT). Bug only affects multi-byte locales. Take the following samples:
bash-4.1# zcat cracklib-words-20080507.gz | sort -u --debug > file && echo $? sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules Segmentation fault bash-4.1# echo $? 139 bash-4.1# bash-4.1# zcat cracklib-words-20080507.gz | sort -u --parallel=1 --debug > file && echo $? sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules 0 bash-4.1# bash-4.1# zcat cracklib-words-20080507.gz | LANG=C sort -u --debug > file && echo $? sort: using simple byte comparison 0 bash-4.1# bash-4.1# gzip -d cracklib-words-20080507.gz bash-4.1# sort -u --debug cracklib-words-20080507 > file && echo $? sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules 0 bash-4.1# In the interim, for a quick and dirty hack, I've added an LC_COLLATE comparison and set nthreads to 1 in multibyte locales. Probably well known, but the test file that I used is available from: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cracklib/cracklib-words-20080507.gz -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.
