Bug#237674: marked as done (glibc: syslog entry dates depend on locale)
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From: Stephan A Suerken <absurd@debian.org>
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Subject: sysklogd: Log format and encoding depends on caller's locale environment
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Hi,
doing this
--
$ absurd? export LANG=<LOCALE-ID>
$ absurd? logger -p daemon.notice "Huhu"
--
results in the following log entries in /var/log/daemon.log:
LOCALE-ID Log entry
C "Mar 12 17:14:16 manwe absurd: Huha"
de_DE (ISO-8859-1) "Mär 12 17:16:43 manwe absurd: Huhe"
de_DE.UTF-8 "Mar 12 17:18:02 manwe Mär 12 17:18:02 absurd: Huhi"
Imho, this is buggy in two ways:
a) The callers environment should not influence the encoding used in
the log file - i.e., at least for automatically added parts like
dates. Allowing different text encodings in one file makes it virtually
impossible to interpret it.
b) (At least) for UTF-8, the format actually seems to change in a
suprising manner ;).
For a), the solution should be to set a fixed locale before calling
any locale-aware (date) routines. b) might be a c-string side effect
from a date conversion that results in a string with at least one
2-byte character (i.e., the bug does not occur in February/Februar ;),
so this too might be fixed with the fix for a).
MfG,
Stephan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-custom-adkm-manwe
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages sysklogd depends on:
ii klogd [linux-kernel-log-dae 1.4.1-13 Kernel Logging Daemon
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
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Subject: Re: glibc: syslog entry dates depend on locale
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> the bug is actually in glibc -- it's also known
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172
>
> and there is a patch (it is not incorporated into at least
> 2.3.2.ds1-13 though).
This bug was fixed in 2.3.2.ds1. I've closed this bug.
Regards,
-- gotom
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