I have been noticing broken case sensitive sorting in recent mc and textutils upgrades. When I went from mc-4.5.42 in the 6.2 distribution to the last two (4.5.50 & 4.5.51) versions from ftp.gnome.org, the case sensitive directory sort order was broken. Now I have noticed the same problem when the sort command when upgrading from textutils-2.0a-2 from the 6.2 distribution to textutils-2.0e-6 from the 6.2 updates. I have narrowed the problem down to NLS/LOCALE/glibc and not the packages themselves. In mc, the change that caused the broken behavior was switching a call to strcmp() to the LOCALE aware counterpart strcoll(). In textutils, the cause is ENABLE_NLS and hard_LC_COLLATE being set which causes a call to memcoll() as opposed to memcmp(). Using mc directory listings as an example, below is the differences in behavior. Using strcoll() all directories All Files Using strcmp() Uppercase Directories lowercase Directories Uppercase .Files lowercase .files Uppercase Regular Files lowercase regular files Since I am not familiar with the workings of LOCALE and NLS, hopefully someone here is and can explain how to restore case sensitive sorting without having to disable NLS capabilities. Regards, Jarrod Kinsley _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
