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[PATCH v2] gettext.c: only work around the vsnprintf bug on glibc < 2.17

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 30, 2013, 12:01 UTC
Message-ID
<1385812884-23776-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1385776291-21006-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Bug 6530 [1] causes "git show v0.99.6~1" to fail with error "your vsnprintf is broken". The workaround avoids that, but it corrupts system error messages in non-C locales.

The bug has been fixed since 2.17. If git is built with glibc, it can know running libc version with gnu_get_libc_version() and avoid the workaround on fixed versions. The workaround is also dropped for all non-glibc systems.

Tested on Gentoo Linux, glibc 2.17, amd64.
[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 v2 removes USE_GLIBC and lets git-compat-util.h do the detection
 gettext.c         | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 git-compat-util.h | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c
index 71e9545..772ab92 100644
--- a/gettext.c
+++ b/gettext.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ int use_gettext_poison(void)
 
 #ifndef NO_GETTEXT
 static const char *charset;
-static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain)
+static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain, int vsnprintf_broken)
 {
 	/*
 	   This trick arranges for messages to be emitted in the user's
@@ -99,9 +99,7 @@ static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain)
 	   $ LANGUAGE= LANG=de_DE.utf8 ./test
 	   test: Kein passendes Ger?t gefunden
 
-	   In the long term we should probably see about getting that
-	   vsnprintf bug in glibc fixed, and audit our code so it won't
-	   fall apart under a non-C locale.
+	   The vsnprintf bug has been fixed since 2.17.
 
 	   Then we could simply set LC_CTYPE from the environment, which would
 	   make things like the external perror(3) messages work.
@@ -112,21 +110,31 @@ static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain)
 	   1. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
 	   2. E.g. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" in po/is.po
 	*/
-	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
+	if (vsnprintf_broken)
+		setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
 	charset = locale_charset();
 	bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, charset);
-	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
+	if (vsnprintf_broken)
+		setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
 }
 
 void git_setup_gettext(void)
 {
 	const char *podir = getenv("GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR");
+	const char *version = glibc_version();
+	int major, minor, vsnprintf_broken;
+
+	if (version && sscanf(version, "%d.%d", &major, &minor) == 2 &&
+	    (major > 2 || (major == 2 && minor >= 17)))
+		vsnprintf_broken = 0;
+	else
+		vsnprintf_broken = 1;
 
 	if (!podir)
 		podir = GIT_LOCALE_PATH;
 	bindtextdomain("git", podir);
-	setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
-	init_gettext_charset("git");
+	setlocale(vsnprintf_broken ? LC_MESSAGES : LC_ALL, "");
+	init_gettext_charset("git", vsnprintf_broken);
 	textdomain("git");
 }
 
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 7776f12..967f452 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -488,11 +488,22 @@ extern int git_vsnprintf(char *str, size_t maxsize,
 
 #ifdef __GLIBC_PREREQ
 #if __GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 1)
+#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
+#define glibc_version() gnu_get_libc_version()
 #define HAVE_STRCHRNUL
 #define HAVE_MEMPCPY
 #endif
 #endif
 
+#ifndef glibc_version
+#ifdef __GNU_LIBRARY__
+#define glibc_version() NULL
+#else
+/* non-glibc platforms, see git_setup_gettext() for "2.17" */
+#define glibc_version() "2.17"
+#endif
+#endif
+
 #ifndef HAVE_STRCHRNUL
 #define strchrnul gitstrchrnul
 static inline char *gitstrchrnul(const char *s, int c)
-- 
1.8.2.83.gc99314b
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Message 3 of 12 in “gettext.c: only work around the vsnprintf bug on glibc < 2.17”
  1. gettext.c: only work around the vsnprintf bug on glibc < 2.17Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 30, 2013
  2. Andreas SchwabNov 30, 2013
  3. gettext.c: only work around the vsnprintf bug on glibc < 2.17Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 30, 2013
  4. Torsten BögershausenNov 30, 2013
  5. Torsten BögershausenNov 30, 2013
  6. Duy NguyenDec 1, 2013
  7. gettext.c: detect the vsnprintf bug at runtimeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Dec 1, 2013
  8. Trần Ngọc QuânDec 2, 2013
  9. Duy NguyenDec 2, 2013
  10. Trần Ngọc QuânDec 2, 2013
  11. Trần Ngọc QuânDec 2, 2013
  12. Duy NguyenDec 2, 2013

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