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This is unambiguously required both by POSIX and by our own manual page.
It also makes a lot of sense because having a function that can
fail and that sets errno in some failure modes but does not set
errno in other failure modes would be a terrible idea. Such a
function would be ridiculously complicated to use. To detect the
reason for failure, you would have to:
- save errno
- reset errno to zero
- call the function
- inspect the return value to detect failure
- inspect errno to decide about the reason for failure
- if errno is zero, restore the saved errno
That is completely unreasonable, in particular for a seemingly innocous
function like mbtowc(3). Next to no programmer would get that right in
any real-world program.
Note that this bug is very widespread, it also affects NetBSD,
FreeBSD, Solaris 11, and glibc. I will also send a note around to
the other systems.
There may be fallout from programs using the interface incorrectly.
If you run into any, please report that to me.
OK millert@
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conversion interfaces of libc (mbrtowc(3) and friends) with new
implementations that internally call an API based on NetBSD's citrus.
This allows us to support locales with multi-byte character encodings.
Provide two implementations of the citrus-based API: one based on the old
single-byte placeholders for use with our existing single-byte character
locales (C, ISO8859-*, KOI8, CP1251, etc.), and one that provides support
for UTF-8 encoded characters (code based on FreeBSD's implementation).
Install the en_US.UTF-8 ctype locale support file, and allow the UTF-8
ctype locale to be enabled via setlocale(3) (export LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8').
A lot of programs, especially from ports, will now start using UTF-8 if the
UTF-8 locale is enabled. Use at your own risk, and please report any breakage.
Note that ncurses-based programs cannot display UTF-8 right now, this is being
worked on.
To prevent install media growth, add vfprintf(3) and mbrtowc(3) to libstubs.
The mbrtowc stub was copied unchanged from its old single-byte placeholder.
vfprintf.c doesn't need to be copied, just put in .PATH (hint by fgsch@).
Testing by myself, naddy, sthen, nicm, espie, armani, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff.
ok matthieu espie millert sthen nicm deraadt
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