[ic] calling setlocale with wrong value

[Joachim Leidinger]

Hi List,

I use FreeBSD 4.6 and IC 4.8.5. If I use the getpwuid function in 
genconfig.html, I get a segmentations fault. After many big helps from 
Stefan Hornburg and my Brother Alexander, we have found the cause, why I 
get a segmentations fault. In Config.pm, there is a codes

(POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_ALL, $settings)

and $settings contains the file ..UI/locales/da_DK.cfg as a string, 
which is wrong. This allocate a part of memmory, which is using by 
getpwuid and getpwuid get a bad adress status. It seems to me, the right 
variable name should be $name instead of $settings. With

  diff -u Config.pm.orig Config.pm
--- Config.pm.orig      Thu Jan 24 07:44:28 2002
+++ Config.pm   Thu Aug  1 16:53:17 2002
@@ -1707,7 +1707,7 @@
                                 and $eval = 1;
                 $eval and ! $safe and $safe = new Safe;
                 if(! defined $store->{$name} and $item eq 'Locale') {
-                       if(POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_ALL, $settings) ) {
+                       if(POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_ALL, $name) ) {
                                 $store->{$name} = POSIX::localeconv();
                         }
                 }

it works fine without a segmentations fault.

Any comments?

Thanks!

Joachim


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Hans-Joachim Leidinger | Dipl.-Phys.Ing. Entwicklung eCommerce
[leidinger@bpanet.de]
Black Point Arts Internet Solutions GmbH
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