reopen 281313 retitle 281313 if VM is low, setlocale fails silentely thanks On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:29:23AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > On 4/17/07, Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > >It has been closed by Pierre HABOUZIT <madcoder@debian.org>. > > > Correct, but /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive is about 67Mo. If your > >system isn't able to map 67M, then your system is likely to have many > >problems anyway. Glibc is not meant for embeded systems, especially due > >to the locales (and other memory-costly features). Please use dietlibc, > >uclibc or custom builds of the libc for that. > > With all due respect, you have entirely missed the point of the bug. > The bug is *not* that the mmap is necessary. It is *not* that the > amount of data is large, or that this is difficult on small systems. > > The bug s that the failure is *not detected*. If the mmap() fails, > setlocale() should fail. ooh, that wasn't obvious at all in your report. Agreed, reopened, and bug retitled to be more obvious. I'll try to work on a fix. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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