From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Locale bikeshed time
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:14:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140726191408.GP4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140726185904.GZ16795@example.net>
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 08:59:04PM +0200, u-igbb@aetey.se wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 02:23:48PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > but using anything other than '.' as the decimal point is broken
> >
> > Agreed. BTW if you support arbitrary radix characters, you should not
> > restrict it to ASCII; this then means the length in bytes of floating
>
> I think there is some international recommendations which actually
> say "either '.' or ',' but not anything else".
According to Stephane Chazelas on oss-security
(http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/21/12), glibc
allows '2' as the radix point...
This is yet another reason for musl's locale system having an "only
allow variations that are necessary" approach: it limits the impact of
malicious locale files if a user can somehow trick a privileged
process into using one.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-26 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-22 18:49 Rich Felker
2014-07-22 20:10 ` u-igbb
2014-07-22 20:35 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-23 9:50 ` u-igbb
2014-07-23 16:39 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-23 19:25 ` u-igbb
2014-07-23 21:01 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 15:35 ` u-igbb
2014-07-24 16:01 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 19:24 ` u-igbb
2014-07-24 20:15 ` u-igbb
2014-07-24 22:02 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-25 9:06 ` u-igbb
2014-07-25 20:15 ` u-igbb
2014-07-25 22:32 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26 7:25 ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 8:03 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26 9:06 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-07-26 9:25 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26 9:38 ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 17:47 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2014-07-26 18:23 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26 18:59 ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 19:14 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2014-07-26 18:56 ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 19:30 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-27 7:28 ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 20:43 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-27 7:51 ` u-igbb
2014-07-27 8:00 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-27 8:24 ` u-igbb
2014-07-23 23:22 ` writeonce
2014-07-23 23:38 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 1:07 ` writeonce
2014-07-24 1:57 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 2:16 ` writeonce
2014-07-24 2:24 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 2:59 ` writeonce
2014-07-22 20:17 ` Laurent Bercot
2014-07-22 20:36 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-23 22:03 ` Laurent Bercot
2014-07-23 22:12 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 15:38 ` u-igbb
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