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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.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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