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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Ondřej Bílka" <neleai@seznam.cz>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gracefully handle incompatible locale data
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:12:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9mjeqyy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150924082755.GA4767@domone> ("Ondřej Bílka"'s message of "Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:27:55 +0200")

Ondřej, I think we have been miscommunicating.

I noticed that a program linked against 2.21 or earlier would abort with
an assertion failure when it stumbles upon 2.22 locale data.

All the patch tries to do is change the abort to EINVAL (and skip locale
data) when that happens.

I’m not claiming this is perfect, and I agree with you on that point.
I’m just saying that ignoring the faulty locale data and returning
EINVAL (which the application can choose to take into account or not) is
preferable to aborting.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 15:27 [PATCH] Gracefully handle incompatible locale data Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-22 18:26 ` Roland McGrath
2015-09-22 19:18 ` Ondřej Bílka
2015-09-22 21:22   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-22 21:50     ` Ondřej Bílka
2015-09-23 21:45       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-24  8:27         ` Ondřej Bílka
2015-09-24 16:12           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-09-25 21:20             ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-09-26 10:24               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-28 20:54                 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-09-29  8:08                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-08 10:31                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 13:30                     ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-10-13 14:45                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-28  5:38                         ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-10-13  0:49                   ` Allan McRae
2015-10-13  9:50                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 13:31                     ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-09-23  6:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-23  7:03   ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-24  2:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-24 19:32   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-27 15:30 ` Samuel Thibault
2015-10-27 15:57   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-28  6:19   ` Carlos O'Donell

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