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Re: alphasort on HP-NonStop


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: alphasort on HP-NonStop
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:43:44 -0800
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On 12/28/2010 01:59 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> I see that gnulib uses strcoll() rather than strcmp(), which seems to be what 
> POSIX mandates.
> I'll request a bug fix for these issues from  HP NonStop development...

When you do that, you might tell them that
there's a possible time bomb there.  (I presume
that NonStop developers prefer to avoid time bombs. :-)
If strcoll fails and set errno == EINVAL, then
POSIX allows alphasort to return any value it
likes, which means that if NonStop's qsort requires
a total ordering, their scandir cannot call qsort.

They can avoid the problem either by having a strcoll
that never fails, or by having a qsort that does not
require a total ordering, or by having a scandir that
does not invoke qsort.



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