Re: dd hangs with SIGINT

[Guillaume Chazarain]

Jim Meyering wrote:
If there is no better way to solve the problem, then I'd consider
leaving the code the way it is.
 

Don't forget, there is my workaround, it stills cause gettext() calls in 
the signal handler,
but I cannot make it fail, unlike vanilla.

--- coreutils-5.3.0/src/dd.c
+++ coreutils-5.3.0/src/dd.c
@@ -1535,6 +1535,14 @@
#endif
    }
+  {
+    /*
+     * Initialize gettext here, so that we are sure it won't happen in 
a signal handler.
+     * Lower the burden on translators by avoiding to mark this 
meaningless string.
+     */
+    const char *tmp_msg = "x";
+    tmp_msg = _(tmp_msg);
+  }
  install_handler (SIGINT, interrupt_handler);
  install_handler (SIGQUIT, interrupt_handler);
  install_handler (SIGPIPE, interrupt_handler);

Regards.
--
Guillaume
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