minorbug(sort): priotize the compress program over files
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Hi, uutils mainteners
i see the uu sort, priotize the sort program over the files, the io errors first needs to be priotized, not the sort program, if an io error ocurred like not exist regardless of the sort program successds or no, exit
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ sudo ./sort --compress-program whatevernonexistent a /dev/mem
sort: could not run compress program 'whatevernonexistent': No such file or directory
sort: Operation not permitted (os error 1)
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ sudo gnusort --compress-program whatevernonexistent a /dev/mem
gnusort: read failed: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$
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Start by reproducing the sort command with --compress-program whatevernonexistent and /dev/mem, then compare its output with GNU sort. Inspect the sort entry point and the handling of compression-program and input I/O errors; the work is done when the relevant I/O failure is reported with the expected precedence and the behavior is covered by a regression test.
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