[PATCH] manual: Clarify the documentation of strverscmp [BZ #20524]

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Sep 8 13:10:00 GMT 2016


On 08/31/2016 01:56 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Perhaps we should just say the comparison happens in an
> implementation-defined manner and is only consistent within a single
> process (just like strcoll).  It would simplify matters and would us
> allow to fix the algorithm. :)

Any further comments?

I was only half-joking.  Maybe we should indeed leave the exact sorting 
order unspecified.

Florian



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