bug#70231: Performance issue on sort with zero-sized pseudo files

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/04/2024 23:22, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2024-04-06 03:09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > I'll apply this.
>
> Heh, I beat you to it by looking for similar errors elsewhere and
> applying the attached patches to fix the issues I found. None of them
> look like serious bugs.

Cool. I thought the sort(1) change worthy of a NEWS entry so pushed one.
Marking this as done.

> > BTW we should improve sort buffer handling in general
>
> Oh yes.
>
> PS. My current little task is to get i18n to work better with 'sort'.
> Among other things I want Unicode-style full case folding.

Excellent, that will help keep the related uniq(1) and join(1)
commands more aligned in their ordering.

cheers,
Pádraig