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[PATCH] correctly name the Shell sort
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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>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Domen Puncer authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 5, 2005
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Expand Up @@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ static int groups_from_user(struct group_info *group_info,
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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