Re: [PATCH] maint: cleanup size determination in sort [was: overly aggressive memory usage by sort.c]

[Jeff Janes]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 06/20/2012 05:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Bernhard's patch was quite deliberately (as the commit log says)
>>> intended to induce no semantic change.
>>
>> Following up on this, here's an updated version of a patch that
>> should fix the problem that Jeff Janes reported in
>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-06/msg00018.html>.,
>> while not reintroducing bug 10877.  Jeff, can you please try this out in
>> your environment?  It'd be nicer if it could be verified to work
>> there.  Thanks.
>
> Hi Jeff,
> Does Paul's patch solve your problem?

Sorry, after taking the time to test it, I forgot to report the results.

Yes, that fixed the problem.

Thanks,

Jeff