> Am 19.05.2022 um 17:20 schrieb Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org>:
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> On 5/19/22 5:15 PM, Stefan Eissing wrote:
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>>> Am 19.05.2022 um 16:44 schrieb Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com>:
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>>> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 05:34:22PM +0200, Ruediger Pluem wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/22 4:55 PM, Joe Orton wrote:
>>>>> I think for httpd it is only safe and sane to run httpd with LANG=C, we
>>>>> do this in the default service scripts in Fedora/RHEL for a very long
>>>>> time. Other than the protocol parsing issues you can get in non-C
>>>>> locales, you can also get "surprises" when sort order can change with
>>>>> the system locale, impacting e.g. config file load ordering and more.
>>>>
>>>> Don't you need a locale sensitive case insensitive string comparison in
>>>> case of case blind file systems which support extended
>>>> latin characters? I know these Germans with their Umlaute :-).
>>>
>>> Heh. Well, I got away with it so far :)
>>>
>>>>> So IMHO it is probably sufficient & simpler to adjust apachectl to set
>>>>> LANG=C rather than trying to eliminate strcasecmp, and add another
>>>>> strcasecmp() reimplementation in APR, in this case.
>>>>
>>>> We already have this implementation in APR and we use the
>>>> httpd one which is just a forward port from APR to httpd until we require
>>>> a sufficient recent APR version in several places.
>>>> The question is just if we should use them everywhere and thus do the
>>>> correct thing no matter what locale is set.
>>>
>>> Ah, I missed that, thanks.
>>>
>>> +1 from me on doing replacement of strcasecmp() with the
>>> locale-insensitive versions then. At least with config options, protocol
>>> data, it is definitely right.
>>>
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>> +1 from me for replacing our protocol+config handling code with the
>> ap_cstr_casecmp().
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> +1. Just to mention: Christophe already did quite some work in this area.
Thanks, Christophe.
For my understanding: the code in APR for tables uses strcasecmp() and I am
probably just too stupid to see where this is redefined?
Kind Regards,
Stefan
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> Regards
>
> Rüdiger
