Re: gsort problem (TAKE 2)

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Eggert
"Anthony Tiemens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >HERE'S MY BACKTRACE... > (gdb) ba > #0 0x125b8 in xalloc_die+0x18 () > #1 0x19244 in xnrealloc_inline+0x7c () > #2 0x19298 in xrealloc+0x30 () > #3 0x193e0 in x2nrealloc_inline+0xd0 () > #4 0x19430 in x2realloc+0x30 () > #5 0xd4b4 in fil

Recall: gsort problem

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony Tiemens
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RE: gsort problem (TAKE 2)

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony Tiemens
please ignore last email... I inserted my backtrace after yours further down Anthony -Original Message- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2006 3:33 PM To: Anthony Tiemens Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: gsort problem "Anthony Tiemens" <[EMAIL P

RE: gsort problem

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony Tiemens
/CML/medw/tmp/orasupptest_gsort> gdb ./gsort-HPUX-6.6.6 HP gdb 3.1 for PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 (narrow), HP-UX 11.00. Copyright 1986 - 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Wildebeest 3.1 (based on GDB) is covered by the GNU General Public License. Type "show copying" to see the condition

'expr' now detects and reports integer overflow

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Eggert
I installed the following in coreutils HEAD so that 'expr' detects and reports integer overflow. Formerly, 'expr' silently ignored integer overflow, typically wrapping around, which is not a good idea in general and in a few cases (x86 division, I suspect) meant that 'expr' might dump core. It's

Re: gsort problem

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Eggert
"Anthony Tiemens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when I test it with a 10gig file, it fails with a "memory exhausted" > error. The unix admin has investigated and monitored the > environment during the execution and appears there is plenty of > memory etc. > > Any ideas what could cause this? Is i

Re: LINUX Sort Problem

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Eggert
"Steve Chamberlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My preference for the sort is to default to the standard ASCII > collating sequence On my host "sort --help" says: *** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses

LINUX Sort Problem

2006-06-06 Thread Steve Chamberlin
Hello all, My name is Steve Chamberlin and I currently work for Qsent in Beaverton, OR. I have been using the sort utility version 5.2.1 in LINUX and seem to be having a problem with special characters. If a line contains these characters, essentially anything beyond numbers and letters, they do

Re: sort 5.93 on Fedora Core 5 exits if intermediate file reaches 2 GB

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Could you please try this patch? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00160.html It should appear in the next coreutils version, but I'd like to verify that it works for you. That patch does work on HP-UX 11.11 but as far as I know nobody has checked it on Fedora Core. Tha

Re: sort 5.93 on Fedora Core 5 exits if intermediate file reaches 2 GB

2006-06-06 Thread Keith R Stanley
Bob and Tim, Sorry this waited so long, but I had to work-around the issue and didn't get back to checking it out. I checked all the ulimit suggestions and all said unlimited. As I burn DVD iso's from this machine, I regularly generate > 2GB files with no difficulty. I copied a version of sort fr

Re: AIX grep limitation: coreutils build failure

2006-06-06 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] RW> Automake patch: RW> * m4/depout.m4 (_AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS): Do not use RW> plain `grep' on the Makefile, as its line length may exceed that RW> for grep. Bug report against coreutils by Sam Sirlin. Please install! [