Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 06:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: odip@bionet.nsc.ru To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/4466: Locale bug in /usr/bin/write Message-ID: <199709041324.GAA27103@hub.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199709041330.GAA27427@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4466
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Locale bug in /usr/bin/write
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 4 06:30:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dmitry Grigorovich
>Organization:
Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russia
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-970618-RELENG
>Environment:
FreeBSD elemental.bionet.nsc.ru 2.2-970618-RELENG FreeBSD 2.2-970618-RELENG #0:
Tue Sep 2 17:15:16 NSS 1997 root@elemental.bionet.nsc.ru:/usr/src/sys/compile/ODIP i386
>Description:
The program /usr/bin/write not setup locale information,
and when print some native specific symbols ( with codes
in range 0x80-0xFF ) it prints next three codes: 'M', '-', char&~0x80,
because function isprint(char) on such symbols is false !
>How-To-Repeat:
Try setup native locale, e.g. KOI8-R
then write to self some native symbols and you see problem !
>Fix:
#### patch /usr/src/usr.bin/write/write.c ####
--- write.c.orig Sat Oct 26 22:29:24 1996
+++ write.c Thu Sep 4 20:03:00 1997
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <locale.h>
+
extern int errno;
main(argc, argv)
@@ -68,6 +70,8 @@
int msgsok, myttyfd;
char tty[MAXPATHLEN], *mytty, *ttyname();
void done();
+
+ (void)setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
/* check that sender has write enabled */
if (isatty(fileno(stdin)))
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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