From: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ldconfig: set LC_COLLATE to C
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ff342a-e130-d6ed-c609-9179c78fc58a@pacific.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171126113204.21318-1-aurelien@aurel32.net>
On 11/26/2017 03:32 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> ldconfig supports "include" directives and use the glob function to
> process them. The glob function sort entries according to the LC_COLLATE
> category. When using a standard "include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf" entry
> in /etc/ld.so.conf, the order therefore depends on the locale used to
> ldconfig. Prefixing the files that have to be processed last with "z"
> or "zz" (as it is often used) therefore doesn't work correctly as "z"
> is not always the last letter. For example in the et_EE locale, it is
> sorted after the "s".
Did you mean before the "s"?
But wouldn't the user/admin expect the files to be sorted according to
their locale? If a strict ordering is needed, I would expect numerical
prefixing to be used.
Rical
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-26 11:32 Aurelien Jarno
2017-11-27 8:48 ` Rical Jasan [this message]
2017-11-27 9:23 ` Aurelien Jarno
2017-11-27 9:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-27 16:21 ` Joseph Myers
2017-11-27 16:36 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-11-27 17:02 ` Florian Weimer
2017-11-27 17:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-11-27 17:16 ` Florian Weimer
2017-11-27 17:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-11-27 20:35 ` Aurelien Jarno
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