Re: sort -c --dont-poop-out-at-the-first-disorder

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:
>>   $ sort -c timez1
>>   sort: timez1:418: disorder: 1162082133
>> is great at finding the first one, but to find the other two one has
>> to use ones brains. No fair.
>
> Isn't that already a contradiction to POSIX?  SUSv3 states that there should
> not be any output at all:

I mentioned that this is being changed but didn't include references.
Here are some:
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/show_archive.tpl?source=L&listname=austin-group-l&first=1&pagesize=80&searchstring=Defect+in+XCU+sort&zone=G