El 2014-05-08 13:20, Marc Espie escribió:
As for portability issues: programs stay with the C locale *in any
case*
unless they do setlocale("") right at the start, in which case they
explicitly say "yes, I want to be localized". So, from that point of
view
the portability issues are minimal (yes, I'm aware of the can of
worms
that threads+locale may open).
xlocale addresses that.
That said, I don't have a general problem with adding other locale
categories.
I believe LC_TIME would provide a useful testbed for eventually
switching all our
locales to the localedef format (including LC_CTYPE). Alas, the
proposed diff
does something else, and unfortunately I don't have enough time for
a detailed
rabbit hole discussion and review with a lot of back-and-forth that
we had when
discussing similar diffs in the past.
THAT on the other hand is the issue at hand... chronic time shortage
to be
certain that what we do for locales isn't dangerous...
I would like a little of clarification about "something else" that
Stefan is talking about. I have been looking for ways to implement
whole xlocale and whole LC_* support that is also part of libc specially
to support well spanish . The tables with data of collations, formats
for numerical and monetary quantities adn time format for different
countries that I have been using are from FreeBSD's, since they are BSD
licensed, cover a lot of countries and somehow developed.
So when I have sent more than is immediatly needed is to make easier
future implementation of xlocale or other LC_* or to use FreeBSD tables
(or what tables do you recommend me to use? are there tables in
localedef format and BSD-license compatible available somewhere?) I
have not been adding anything to weak security. I understand any change
can lead to security problems and I thank and appreciate the time any
developer spends auditing. All the suggestions that Stefan has asked me
in past, I have implemented (All what I have sent and the suggestions I
have received from Stephan and other developers I have included with
credit in adJ:
https://github.com/pasosdeJesus/adJ/tree/OBSD_CURRENT/arboldes/usr/src
).
The LC_TIME implementation is shorter IMHO than the other LC_* and then
faster to audit, so if you want I can try to send very short diffs in
separate emails.
