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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 06:00:26PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:47:09AM -0700, Karl Williamson wrote:
> > On 02/23/2014 07:50 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > >I haven't been following the recent locale.t threads very closely, since
> > >they seem to relate to test failures on platforms I don't use.
> > >However, recently, I've started seeing *warnings* generated by locale.t.
> > >For example on today's blead v5.19.9-28-gdca36a0, on Linux I see:
> > >
> > >$ ./perl harness run/locale.t
> > >run/locale.t .. 8/19 sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (invalid): No such file or directory
> > >sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (invalid): No such file or directory
> > >run/locale.t .. ok
> > >All tests successful.
> > >Files=1, Tests=19, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr 0.01 sys + 0.68 cusr 0.09 csys = 0.81 CPU)
> > >Result: PASS
> > >
> > >It appears to be this part of the test file:
> > >
> > > local $ENV{LC_ALL} = "invalid";
> > > local $ENV{LC_NUMERIC} = "invalid";
> > > local $ENV{LANG} = $_;
> > >
> > > # Can't turn off the warnings, so send them to /dev/null
> > > fresh_perl_is(<<'EOF', "$difference", { stderr => "devnull" },
> > > ....
> > >
> > >And it appears to be that fresh_perl_is() is spawning a shell which then
> > >spawns perl, which runs the test code. But the invalid LC_ALL is seen by
> > >the intervening shell, which is generating the warnings.
> > >
> > >I'm not sure what the best workaround is.
> > >
> >
> > I don't get that on my Linux. What sh are you using?
>
> $ rpm -qf /bin/sh
> bash-4.2.45-1.fc18.x86_64
>
> This is Fedora 18.
and here it is demoed:
$ LC_ALL=invalid /bin/sh -c 'echo yes'
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (invalid): No such file or directory
yes
$
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