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Re: Addendum: Possible Bug in comm ?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Addendum: Possible Bug in comm ?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:46:27 -0600
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According to Joseph A. Wiencko, Jr. on 9/13/2006 9:57 PM:
> 
> Another way of saying it, in a question format, is "Is there ANY
> collating sequence in which the example I posed makes sense for the
> behavior of comm?  If so, please name one."
> 
> This logical error, regardless of collating sequence, is why it appears
> to be a bug.

As Andreas explained, if your inputs are not already sorted according to
the current locale, then using comm on those files does not have to
produce reliable output.  Garbage in, garbage out.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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