Bug 27803

Summary: Enhancement to sort(1)
Product: Base System Reporter: Pete Carah <pete>
Component: gnuAssignee: Ceri Davies <ceri>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.3-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Pete Carah 2001-06-01 00:10:03 UTC 
	Enhance sort with -I data type (IP address; parsing and byte
	ordering handled with system macros, thus possibly unsuitable
	for some systems.  I think freebsd always has netinet/*.h, etc.

	This probably should be submitted to gnu-bugs instead of here;
	if submitted there it will need autoconf stuff to detect the
	presence of network code.

How-To-Repeat: 	IP addresses normally sorted lexically; this is a pain
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway 2001-06-02 10:30:46 UTC 
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:00:11PM -0700, pete@altadena.net wrote:

> 	This probably should be submitted to gnu-bugs instead of here;
> 	if submitted there it will need autoconf stuff to detect the
> 	presence of network code.

Correct; we don't like to change externally-maintained code, because
it often causes enormous hassles trying to update it to a later vendor
release.

Kris
Comment 2 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-06-20 01:15:58 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Can you report this to the sort developer 
at GNU. Then when it is fixed can you also 
submitt a follow-up to this PR, please. 

We can then import the new sort version.
Comment 3 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-06-08 19:01:41 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (6 months or more). 
I will handle any feedback that this closure generates.
Comment 4 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-06-08 19:01:41 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-bugs->ceri

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