Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:47:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, terry@lambert.org, dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510170247.TAA26308@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pa7NnWm864@ache.dialup.demos.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 17, 95 05:32:39 am
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> >> LANG=fr_FR.ISO_8859-1 > >> LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 > >> > >> As soon as I switch LC_CTYPE to fr_FR.ISO_8859-1, all xterms started from > >> this terminal will dump core (well, they won't because xterm is setuid > >> root), each time. The signal is SEGV. > > >Your xterm is improperly pretending to be internationalized. It's > >pretending because there is bogus code in crt0.o that causes it to > >call setlocale() when XPG/3 and XPG/4 both say it shouldn't. > > Be shure that your propogating cause the same effect on xterm as > my hack (the same code table loaded). No it won't. The LC_TYPE causes the load to fail for the default set and there is no default set, so boom. In the case of a statically loaded (writeable strings) default, there is no setlocale() call, thus no failure, thus no core. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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