bug#7216: [bug report] for sort.c in coreutils-5.93

[jack alibaba]

BTW: the email  address of the author 'mike' in
coreutils-5.93/src/sort.c  is invalid~~~.

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:08:53 +0800
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Subject: [bug report] for sort.c in coreutils-5.93

dear mike:

may be there's a bug for sort util in coreutil-5.93.bz2.
Pls see the example below:

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bash#> (echo 1230 1;echo 123 1)|sort -k1
1230 1
123 1
bash#> (echo 1230 1;echo 123 0)|sort -k1
123 0
1230 1
=========

The result is diffrent,but the first column (-k1) doesn't  change at all.
As a result, we cannot use JOIN util to get a correct result. :(

I'm not sure if it is my mistake or a bug~~~

beg your reply.  Tks very much

                                                From: jack