On 2013-11-30 13.01, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> Bug 6530 [1] causes "git show v0.99.6~1" to fail with error "your
causes or caused (as we have a work around?)
> vsnprintf is broken". The workaround avoids that, but it corrupts
> system error messages in non-C locales.
[snip]
> The bug in glibc has been fixed since 2.17. If git is built with glibc, it can
^^^^^^ (Should we name glibc ?)
[snip]
> - setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
> - init_gettext_charset("git");
> + setlocale(vsnprintf_broken ? LC_MESSAGES : LC_ALL, "");
1) One thing I don't understand: Why do we need to set LC_ALL ?
The old patch didn't do it, or what do I miss ?
See https://wiki.debian.org/Locale :
Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it overrides everything. Please use it only when testing and never set it in a startup file.
2) I stole the code partly from here:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
#define STR "²éľÂíɱ²¡¶¾£¬ÖܺèµtÄúµÄ360²»×¨Òµ£¡"
int main(void) {
char buf[200];
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
printf("gnu_glibc_version()=%s\n", gnu_get_libc_version());
printf("ret(snprintf)=%d\n", snprintf(buf, 150, "%.50s", STR));
return 0;
}
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Then I run it on different machines:
gnu_glibc_version()=2.11.3 /* Ubuntu 10.4, no updates */
gnu_glibc_version()=2.11.3 /* Debian Squeze ?*/
gnu_glibc_version()=2.13 /* Debian Wheezy */
ret(snprintf)=50 /* All the 3 above */
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So could it be that libc is patched in Debian/Ubuntu, and we
can do a runtime check (rather than looking at the version number),
similar to the code above ?
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3) The patch didn't break anything here (Debian, Mac OS).
4) Could it be good to have a test case ? Is t0204 good for inspiration ?
5) I can do more testing if needed.
/Torsten
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