From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30100 invoked by alias); 5 Aug 2004 15:41:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30076 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2004 15:41:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Aug 2004 15:41:28 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i75FfNe3001616 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:41:28 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i75FfCa06460; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:41:17 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6D02B9D; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41125511.5040300@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:41:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040801 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jyates@netezza.com Cc: schwab@suse.de, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 > Wow! Learn something new everyday! > > Neither ls --help nor man ls provide a much of a clue > as to what a version sort is. Listed among items with > more obvious sorting semantics I simply ignored -v. > info ls provided the full story. ls -v definitely > addresses my objection. > > /john For what its worth, I think if we [gdb] find ourselves doing more than 4 re-spins (a.k.a. point releases) from a branch, we've got far bigger problems :-) Andrew