trying to build dash: awk and sort bugs uncovered

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 23:30, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 5:18 pm, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:06, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > > You won't see awk bug anyway because you are most probably
> > > > in POSIX locale.
> > > 
> > > Yes.  Since when does busybox support locales?
> > 
> > No sir, I didn't commit that sin! ;) It was done by someone else:
> > 
> > busybox.c
> >         /* Set locale for everybody except 'init' */
> >         if (ENABLE_LOCALE_SUPPORT && getpid() != 1)
> >                 setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> > 
> > This is practically all. It doesn't take much space.
> > 
> > Now we need to disable it back in a few places (date, httpd, awk)
> > for specific LC_xxx.
> 
> What does this actually affect?  (I'm curious.  If we can foist locale support 
> off on the C library with one or two lines, it's not necessarily bad to have 
> it as a config option.  But what does it do, swap out strcmp() with a 
> different implementation?)

doubles start printing comma (123,456), month names and perror messages
are in selected language, date style also changes. Etc...
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