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Subject: Re: Here's another glibc env. var.
From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakargo.troja.mff.cuni.cz)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 16:52:51 CDT


On Wed, 24 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> There's a lot of it about. And ignoring LC_ for setuid apps is not an option
> if you wish to travel abroad and live.

My patch disabling LC_* stuff made it to the official libc5 (I think it
was the last release, 5.4.46), and I have travelled abroad and stayed
alive since then! :)

(In fact, it is probably a good thing to motivate people to avoid putting
user-friendly junk into setuid programs...)

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."