[coreutils-6.9] ls bug: ls failing to sort alphabetically with and without options

My distro is ClarkConnect Community Edition release 4.0 (kernel 2.6.9-42.cc). I noticed that ls was failing to sort alphabetically so I grabbed the latest version of coretuils and compiled it: ]# wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz ]# tar xvfz coreutils-6.9.tar.gz ]# cd

[coreutils-6.9] ls and sort bug: ls and sort fails to sort alphabetically with and without options

My distro is ClarkConnect Community Edition release 4.0 (kernel 2.6.9-42.cc). I noticed that ls was failing to sort alphabetically so I grabbed the latest version of coreutils and compiled it to test it, which failed as well: ~]# wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz ~]# tar

[coreutils-6.9] multiple utilities not handling escape char(\) properly when used with -, instead interpreting as option(could be a bash bug?)

ClarkConnect Community Edition release 4.0 (kernel 2.6.9-42.cc) I compiled the latest coreutils from source. Then I ran these series of commands: coreutils-6.9]# mkdir testdir coreutils-6.9]# cd testdir/ testdir]# ../src/touch +foo0 testdir]# ../src/touch \+foo1 testdir]# ../src/touch -bar0