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Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
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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
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