* [KJ] [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-bk1 1/1] correctly name the Shell sort
@ 2005-03-22 0:57 Daniel Dickman
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From: Daniel Dickman @ 2005-03-22 0:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernel-janitors
As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to
as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>
--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-bk1/kernel/sys.c 2005-03-21 01:53:02.296875000 -0500
+++ linux/kernel/sys.c 2005-03-21 03:24:09.156250000 -0500
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@
return 0;
}
-/* a simple shell-metzner sort */
+/* a simple Shell sort */
static void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
{
int base, max, stride;
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