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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.5 locale oddities Date: 28 Aug 1996 08:15:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <500v6u$khm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4vpe5l$b7l@ardbeg.islay.sub.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E pmh@ardbeg.islay.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen) wrote: > I updated my system to 2.1.5 - some bugs seem to have survived from 2.1.0. > > When I set ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE, xterm still dumps core like in 2.1.0 - > this used to work in 2.0.5. ``Doctor, it hurts when i do this.'' -- ``Don't do this.'' :-) ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE basically was a mistake. However, the correct fix was considered to have a too large impact on the entire system so it was deliberately left out from 2.1.5. (It is to stuff a setlocale() into each utility that needs it. xterm does already do this.) > If someone could provide me with the right pointers to where to start, I > would try to fix this mess. It is already fixed in 2.2-current, but the process of fixing it was a long-term effort. I remember a recent commit series from Andrey Chernov concerning this, still after 2.1.5 has been shipping. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)