/bin/sort bug

[mark at umcp-cs.UUCP]

I think the problem is that /bin/sort doesn't guarantee anything
about the order of records which are "equal" on the specified
sorting fields.  This is typical of sort programs, actually,
since they can then run faster.  Sort does a lot of sorting
of subsets into temp files and then merging the results--retaining
equality ordering would be difficult.
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