Fix versions.awk

Momchil Velikov velco@fadata.bg
Sun Dec 1 13:29:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Roland" == Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

    Roland> You haven't shown a failure mode.  The temporary is
    Roland> written with a pipe to sort -n (see the BEGIN clause), so
    Roland> sorting when reading it makes no sense.

Indeed. Apparently the BSD sort(1), when given ``-n'' option does not
sort the file at all, if lines do not begin with

        "An initial numeric string, consisting of optional blank
         space, optional minus sign, and zero or more digits (includ-
         ing decimal point)"

~velco
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