From b5f9a6a176a32d73745fc61366c26f2c1ff9fca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:57:01 -0700
Subject: * tests/misc/sort (use-nl): Fix comment to match the test case.

---
 tests/misc/sort | 27 +++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tests/misc/sort')

diff --git a/tests/misc/sort b/tests/misc/sort
index fedbf278f..5bc526a27 100755
--- a/tests/misc/sort
+++ b/tests/misc/sort
@@ -310,26 +310,13 @@ my @Tests =
 ["nul-nls", '', {IN=>"\0b\n\0a\n"}, {OUT=>"\0a\n\0b\n"}],
 
 # Paul Eggert wrote:
-# I tested the revised `sort' against Solaris `sort', and found a
-# discrepancy that turns out to be a longstanding bug in GNU sort.
-# POSIX.2 specifies that a newline is part of the input line, and should
-# be significant during comparison; but with GNU sort the newline is
-# insignificant.  Here is an example of the bug:
-#
-#        $ od -c t
-#        0000000  \n  \t  \n
-#        0000003
-#        $ sort t | od -c
-#        0000000  \n  \t  \n
-#        0000003
-#
-# The correct output of the latter command should be
-#
-#        0000000  \t  \n  \n
-#        0000003
-#
-# because \t comes before \n in the collating sequence, and the trailing
-# \n's are part of the input line.
+# A previous version of POSIX incorrectly required that the newline
+# at the end of the input line contributed to the sort, which would
+# mean that an empty line should sort after a line starting with a tab
+# (because \t precedes \n in the ASCII collating sequence).
+# GNU 'sort' was altered to do this, but was changed back once it
+# was discovered to be a POSIX bug (and the POSIX bug was fixed).
+# Check that 'sort' conforms to the fixed POSIX, not to the buggy one.
 ["use-nl", '', {IN=>"\n\t\n"}, {OUT=>"\n\t\n"}],
 
 # Specifying two -o options should evoke a failure
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