Re: fortune bug ?

[Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@uni.lu>]

Le mardi 31 mai 2005 à 23:38 -0400, Kevin Mark a écrit :
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:15:52PM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> > Le mardi 31 mai 2005 à 16:09 +0200, Aurélien Campéas a écrit :
> > [...]
> > > a lot of crap here, but look at the last stat64 syscalls near the end :
> > > it looks like a bug related to localisation (fortune tries to open a
> > > file named "fr_FR.UTF ..." instead of a real file). Indeed for this
> > > system I had the funny idea to ask for encoding of all files in UTF-8
> > > instead of iso-latin-1 as I usually do.
> > 
> > 
> > So, am I the only one out there that uses UTF8-something as default
> > encoding for filenames ?
> > 
> > Aurélien.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> maybe run the command prefixed with LANG= or LANGUAGE= or LC_ALL= 
> LC_ALL=en_US fortune
> 

Indeed. Then, fortune tries to do that :

stat64("/usr/local/share/games/fortunes/en_US", 0xbfffdb9c) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)

In fact, in a sarge box where fortune works, this also (almost)
happens ... in facts fortune tries a lot of silly filenames before
opening the right ones. Go figure. That's not important.

fortune fails when trying to open a non-existant file with an EACCES
return code (the working version does not get EACCES returns, only
ENOENTs). However I checked the permissions and they are *apparently*
the same (from /usr/share/games to .../fortunes).

Even lsattr shows nothing. How can that be ???


Aurélien.


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