bug#33025: Add examples of why one would want to "sort" something "randomly"

2018-10-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
On (info "(coreutils) sort invocation") ‘-R’ ‘--random-sort’ ‘--sort=random’ Sort by hashing the input keys and then sorting the hash values. Choose the hash function at random, ensuring that it is free of collisions so that differing keys have differing hash values. This is

bug#6816: df bug on 64-bit Solaris (need to use getextmntent)

2018-10-12 Thread Bruno Haible
David Wood wrote: > >> At this point, me->me_dev contains a wrongly packed (32-bit) device > >> number, which forces the find_mount_point() code path (causing other > >> unpleasantries). The following patch against coreutils v8.5 fixes the > >> problem: This problem description was to the