Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 06:10:30 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <clcwnWmaG5@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199510170247.TAA26308@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert at Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:47:46 -0700 (MST) References: <199510170247.TAA26308@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In message <199510170247.TAA26308@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert
writes:
>> >> 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.
Not this case. This case is equal simple LANG set or not set,
LC_CTYPE bogusly involved here. I dump xterm core only by LANG
and don't need LC_CTYPE for it. Having bogus LC_CTYPE simple
mask LANG presence.
--
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