Re: Fwd: Bug#41144: incomplete or broken locale defns cause general chaos

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

Well, there's definitely a nasty little bug here.  Try this:

$ LANG=IT_it strace date +%p
<snip>
mremap(0x30057000, 0x1d13000, 0x1d13000, 0x1) = 805662720
mremap(0x30057000, 0x1d13000, 0x1d14000, 0x1) = 805662720
mremap(0x30057000, 0x1d14000, 0x1d14000, 0x1) = 805662720
mremap(0x30057000, 0x1d14000, 0x1d14000, 0x1) = 805662720
mremap(0x30057000, 0x1d14000, 0x1d14000, 0x1) = 805662720
<continue like this>

The program maps a steadily growing memory region, growing at >20MB a
minute.


On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 02:28:34PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> [ Forwarded from the Debian Bug-tracking system, please keep 
> 41144-forwarded@bugs.debian.org cc'ed so replies are recorded. ]
> 
> Is this a bug? Is it feasible to fix?
> 
> The data files are created using the install-locales makefile target.
> 
> >Subject: Bug#41144: incomplete or broken locale defns cause general chaos
> >Reply-To: Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net>, 41144@bugs.debian.org
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> >Status:
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> >Package: locales
> >Version: 2.1.1-13
> >Severity: critical
> >
> >Many of the locale definitions seem to have missing, undefined
> >fields.  This wreaks havoc on a number of programs, causing them to
> >hang or crash or otherwise fail.  A simple example:
> >
> >LANG=it_IT date +%p
> >
> >This will hang with most of the provided locales, not just it_IT.
> >Only the japanese, turkish, chinese, icelandic and most of the english
> >and spanish locales pass this simple test.  Any which fail this test
> >can also cause emacs (as a random example) to hang.
> >
> >I've checked with a few other people, and this seems to be pretty
> >consistent.  I think we need to have *some* value defined for
> >everything that's supposed to be in a locale for all locales.  Better
> >to have incorrect data (e.g. from C or POSIX locales) than no data,
> >IMO, since incorrect data won't cause things to hang....
> -- 
> Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                 <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
> <URL:http://web.espy.org/>               <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
> 


Dan

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|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan@debian.org         |  |       dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu      |
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