bug#29044: sort --debug results improvement

2017-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 29044 notabug close 29044 thanks Hello, There are few issues at hand. Answering out of order: > $ sort -k 2n -k 3n --debug file.txt [...] > Also the user is confused if > > is a "key 3", or just a separator. > > Therefore please say > ": key 1" or "1" etc. at the end of eac

bug#29044: sort --debug results improvement

2017-10-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ sort -k 2n -k 3n --debug file.txt sort: using simple byte comparison sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields sort: key 2 is numeric and spans multiple fields 41 011 92.3 亞太 ___ 41 011 97.1 大漢 ___ OK but they look like they only span one fie

bug#29038: df hangs on fifos/named pipes

2017-10-28 Thread Stephane Chazelas
test case: mkfifo p df p That hangs, unless you make "p" non-readable or some other process has the fifo open in write mode. The reason is that df tries to open the fifo in read-only mode, according to comments in the source code so as to trigger a potential automout. That goes back to th