Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 09:55:25PM +0100: > I have now submitted a request to add such a method to POSIX. Here: > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1220 Yes, i had seen that request. > I used OpenBSD 6.2 as an example in there, not to bash OpenBSD, Nothing is

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ingo, Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate that you give true consideration to arguments. > But i guess discussing such considerations in detail would be > off-topic on this mailing list We can stay on this mailing list. I'm not going to go deep into OpenBSD specific system design arguments

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 08:01:04PM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> The OpenBSD C library intentionally doesn't implement any other >> locale(1) categories except LC_CTYPE because many here regard the >> other categories as overengineering and as detrimental to system

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ingo, > The OpenBSD C library intentionally doesn't implement any other > locale(1) categories except LC_CTYPE because many here regard the > other categories as overengineering and as detrimental to system > security I partially agree with this, regarding specific categories, such as - LC_