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From: Josiah Worcester <josiahw@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] nl_langinfo returns NULL instead of empty string
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:42:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMAJcuB98tGG0tzeoPRLsSE+MXuXLUd-w1=UHWJe_mYiVVdUwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564252F1.5050307@email.cz>

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:26 PM <smidjar2.reg@email.cz> wrote:

> Manual page for nl_langinfo() function says it should return an empty
> string when 'item' is not valid. Musl's implementation currently returns
> NULL. This is causing issue for applications compiled against glibc
> using gnu extensions, such as 'GROUPING' (0x10002) item (which is
> returning '\003\003' for glibc on my system, but NULL when using musl).
>
> One example of such application is 'Champions of Regnum' game. It is
> crashing with musl, because it strncpy() a string returned from the
> function.
>

POSIX agrees:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/nl_langinfo.html
clearly
states "In all locales, these functions shall return a pointer to an empty
string if item contains an invalid setting."
Good catch.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-10 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-10 20:26 smidjar2.reg
2015-11-10 20:42 ` Josiah Worcester [this message]
2015-11-11  4:10 ` Rich Felker

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