On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 01:56:15PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > >From Iain's report I understand that since Perl 5.28, gettext() calls > are cached, so after switching the locale, in order to get correct > results, one needs to invalidate the cache somehow, e.g. by calling > bindtextdomain() and then textdomain().
FWIW I looked into this a bit, and indeed glibc has a cache of already loaded translations that gets invalidated (by incrementing _nl_msg_cat_cntr) in setlocale(3), bindtextdomain(3) and textdomain(3) but not uselocale(3). Starting with Perl 5.28, Perl uses POSIX 2008 thread-safe locales, so it calls uselocale(3) underneath when the Perl side POSIX::setlocale() function is invoked. The proposed fix/workaround seems fine to me, though I wonder if glibc should invalidate the cache in uselocale(3) as well. Copying the glibc maintainers. Any opinion on this? -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
