READLINE PATCH REPORT
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Readline-Release: 8.2
Patch-ID: readline82-001
Bug-Reported-by: Kan-Ru Chen <[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-ID:
Bug-Reference-URL:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021109
Bug-Description:
Starting a readline application with an invalid locale specification for
LC_ALL/LANG/LC_CTYPE can cause it crash on the first call to readline.
Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
*** ../readline-8.2-patched/nls.c 2022-08-15 09:38:51.000000000 -0400
--- nls.c 2022-10-05 09:23:22.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 142,145 ****
--- 142,149 ----
lspec = "";
ret = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, lspec); /* ok, since it does not change locale
*/
+ if (ret == 0 || *ret == 0)
+ ret = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, (char *)NULL);
+ if (ret == 0 || *ret == 0)
+ ret = RL_DEFAULT_LOCALE;
#else
ret = (lspec == 0 || *lspec == 0) ? RL_DEFAULT_LOCALE : lspec;
*** ../readline-8.2/patchlevel 2013-11-15 08:11:11.000000000 -0500
--- patchlevel 2014-03-21 08:28:40.000000000 -0400
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*** 1,3 ****
# Do not edit -- exists only for use by patch
! 0
--- 1,3 ----
# Do not edit -- exists only for use by patch
! 1
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