Re: setlocale in cp/rm/mv

2016-10-11 Thread Theo Buehler
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:31:38AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > Jan Stary wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:53:23AM +0200: > > > cp(1) and rm(1) call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") but mv(1) does not. > > Why do they do that, and why mv doesn't? > > That is useless and wasteful. > > I think it c

Re: setlocale in cp/rm/mv

2016-10-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 11 10:31:38, schwa...@usta.de wrote: > > cp(1) and rm(1) call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") but mv(1) does not. > > Why do they do that, and why mv doesn't? > > That is useless and wasteful. > > I think it comes from a time when people still thought that doing > more and more and more might bring

Re: setlocale in cp/rm/mv

2016-10-11 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Jan Stary wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:53:23AM +0200: > cp(1) and rm(1) call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") but mv(1) does not. > Why do they do that, and why mv doesn't? That is useless and wasteful. I think it comes from a time when people still thought that doing more and more and more might