Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:26:23 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Upcoming GNU sort removal Message-ID: <CADGWnjWxn49Qrscz13WjN808ny966-Jf1GLWLE-vKJMg3w1GaQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <506DB65D.7000009@FreeBSD.org> References: <506D6AA3.7010504@FreeBSD.org> <1349362250.83035.3.camel@btw.pki2.com> <506DB65D.7000009@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote: > Em 04-10-2012 16:50, Dennis Glatting escreveu: >> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:53 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > it has been more than 3 months ago that BSD sort became default in HEAD >>> > and no serious complaints have been raised against it since then so I >>> > plan to permanently remove GNU sort from head in the next days. If you >>> > have any objection, please raise it now. >>> > >> Initially I had problems with multi TB files (--unique, five to ten >> files) but I haven't had to do that in two(?) months. I will be getting >> back to that project in a month or so. >> >> It challanges a system's resources. :) > > And did it go much better with base GNU sort? It's quite an extreme > case... :) Multi GB is also rare not speaking about multi TB... Yup. Plus nothing prevents us from using GNU sort from ports for those extremely rare cases. AFAICS, BSD sort is great for most of the workloads and is a perfect replacement for GNU sort. Good work! BTW, its good to see BSD-licensed tools gradually replacing GNU tools in base. Though I'd have really preferred to see resources directed towards getting XEN/Dom0 support to FreeBSD/amd64. This really needs some love, IMHO. ;-) > Gabor Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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