"UTF2" method. Although UTF-8 and the old UTF2 encoding are compatible
for 16-bit characters, the new UTF-8 implementation is much more strict
about rejecting malformed input and also handles the full 31 bit range
of characters.
currently cached data. It allows a number of nice things, like: removing
fallback code from single locale loading, remove memory leak when LC_CTYPE
data loaded again and again, efficient cache use, not only for
setlocale(locale1); setlocale(locale1), but for setlocale(locale1);
setlocale("C"); setlocale(locale1) too (i.e. data file loaded only once).
the diff is attached below. This is done on the 3.0 source-tree.
I have test this on 2.2-stable before, but I don't have a 3.0 machine
right now.
This patch is mainly to make libc support BIG5 encoding, thus add
zh_TW.BIG5 locale to 3.0.
Submitted by: Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw>
Vulnerable: all programs that use setlocale(LC_COLLATE),
setlocale(LC_CTYPE), or setlocale(LC_ALL). The only setuid/setgid
binary i've found for this is w(1).
Should go into 2.2.
strdup() it to prevent unsetenv() or setenv() effects. Check its length to
not allow user to overflow internal locale buffer. Move PATH_LOCALE
handling code into one place.
POSIX: make better stub for LC_MONETARY & LC_NUMERIC, now it check
locale directory existance instead of refusing all non-C non-POSIX
locales. POSIX treats empty locale env variable as unset variable
while our old code treats it as "C" locale, fix it. Implement previous locale
restoring, if locale setting fails. Old code assumes success if some
of LC_ALL subset is successed even other fails, POSIX treats it as
failure with previous locale restoring, fix it.
Remove unneccessary length checking in currentlocale()
