On 10 Aug 2023, at 16:51, Rich Felker wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 04:41:38PM +0100, Alastair Houghton wrote: >> I spent some time today looking at the setlocale() problem and >> thought I’d put some notes down in an email. [snip] > At this point, it's been quite a while since I looked at the > mechanisms. If you'd like to help move this forward, rather than > starting with a patch, writing a high-level natural language > description of how you'd make the changes (in terms of musl's current > internal representation for locale state) would be the most helpful. > If I'm forgetting and there's already such a good description, just > digging it up and citing it might be fine. I wrote something up here: https://gist.github.com/al45tair/15c3ade52b09d0cad67074176ad43e4a Let me know what you think; I can update the document there until we’re happy that we’ve got the right solution, then I should be able to create a patch and get the relevant permission from my employer to submit it. Kind regards, Alastair.