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Re: Why is the sort-test ignoring ':', '(' and ';' and trailing space
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 13 Dec 2003 00:54:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why is the sort-test ignoring ':', '(' and ';' and trailing space
- References: <E19ZG1i-00009m-00@saruman.uio.no>
- Reply-by: Tue, 1 Jan 1801 04:37:40 +1000
[Petter Reinholdtsen, 2003-07-06]
> I just discovered that the current sort test is ignoring the three
> characters ':', '(' and ';', and is skipping trailing whitespace. Why
> is this?
I got no reply to this one, so I assume there is no good reason for
it. Unless someone come up with a good explanation soon, I'll prepare
and submit patches to modify the sort tests, and the sort test data
that need to change because of this.