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correctly name the Shell sort

PATCH New Daniel Dickman 1 participant 1 message Mar 22, 2005 Kernel janitors

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PATCH 1/1 correctly name the Shell sort

As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer.

kernel/sys.c +1 -1
@@ -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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