[cs631apue] Sorting working on Linux, but not Unix

[Jan Schaumann]

Jason Ajmo <jajmo at stevens.edu> wrote:
> Code: https://gist.github.com/jajmo/5e4e7827fd5b52549132a6a6364c4e53
> The following are sorted based on filesize, descending (ls -lS)
> On Linux, the objects are linked with -lbsd, and include bsd/bsd.h.
> 
> Output on Unix:

I think you mean 'NetBSD', which is a Unix-like OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like

> [vagrant at vagrant midterm]$ ./ls -lS
> total 216
> -rw-r--r--  1 vagrant 1000  1846 Sep 28 16:29 helpers.c
> -rw-r--r--  1 vagrant 1000  3376 Sep 29 15:59 sort.o

Weird.  Looks like no sorting is taking place at all.  Have you
confirmed that the code block you think is being executed is in fact
being executed?

-Jan