Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous

[Denis Excoffier]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 12:58:31AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> One problem I can see is that the sort does not
>> use the locale's collating rules, which will undoubtely
>> run afoul of somebody somewhere.  Conversely, locale-specific
>> comparison can fail, which is a pain to work around (see how
>> GNU 'ls' does it -- ouch!).  We may have to bite the bullet
>> and do things the 'ls' way....
>> 

I've read the comments and code in coreutils/src/ls.c and improved
the patch in that direction.

It seems to me that the comment 'strcoll() succeeded' in ls.c should
be replaced by something like 'let's try first with strcoll()'.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.

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