On 1/11/13 02:10, TheSin wrote:
> shouldn't get text have a fallback or maybe we should create one, this type
> of thing is going to cause issue all over, and setting it to N or not
> translate isn't really a good solution. Maybe get text needs to have a
> fallback added to it instead?
I don't think we can do much about the behavior of gettext. As long as
it uses the CoreFoundation framework, it will not be "async-signal
safe", so it must not be used in the child process after a 'fork' and
before 'exec'. This is documented in many places.
After reading some of the docs, I find it rather astonishing that dpkg
did not crash before. That it crashes when LANG is unset is less
surprising than that it does not crash when LANG is set and that it
waited until OSX 10.8 or 10.9 to show the crash, but understanding what
the precise mechanism of the crash is would require a deep understanding
of CoreFoundation's innards.
I think that these are real programming errors in dpkg and tar. They
should not use any '_("")' type strings in the child process after
'fork'. If they really want to transmit localized messages as parameters
to some function in the child process, they should evaluate the string
*before* the 'fork' and transmit a variable to the function, like so:
--- dpkg-deb/extract.c~ 2013-11-01 11:28:21.000000000 +0100
+++ dpkg-deb/extract.c 2013-11-01 11:30:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -244,5 +244,7 @@
m_pipe(p1);
+ char* failedtowrite = _("failed to write to pipe in copy");
if (!(c1= m_fork())) {
close(p1[0]);
- stream_fd_copy(ar, p1[1], memberlen, _("failed to write to pipe
in copy"));
+ stream_fd_copy(ar, p1[1], memberlen, failedtowrite);
if (close(p1[1]) == EOF) ohshite(_("failed to close pipe in copy"));
--
Martin
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