FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Hmmm....my bad, and what's worse is I know better too!

IIRC the getenv() was used read only and then a sloppy patch was applied 
for case sensitivity,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Castellano, Nicholas wrote:

> Strings returned by getenv() should not be modified.  FreeTDS should
> strdup() first and modify the copy, then free() it later on.
> 
> Cheers,
> --nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [freetds] How to set locales.conf in spanish
> 
> 
> On 10 Jan 2003 09:08:10 -0800, Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > FreeTDS reads the LANG environment variable, and uses it as a key 
> > > into locales.conf.  It expects a 5-character value in $LANG: 2 
> > > (lowercase) for the language, an underscore, and 2 (uppercase) for 
> > > the country.
> > 
> > I got a weird result when I tried to mix DBD::FreeTDS (with freetds) 
> > and DBD::Sybase (with openclient) in the same perl script.
> > 
> > If I loaded DBD::Sybase *after* DBD::FreeTDS I got an error from the 
> > Sybase locale handler, because suddenly LANG (or LC_ALL) was set to 
> > en_us instead of en_US (or at least the Sybase libs thought so).
> 
> 
> This may be the culprit, in src/tds/locale.c
> 
>   s = getenv("LANG");
>   if (s && strlen(s)) {
>         rewind(in);
>         for (i = 0; i < strlen(s); i++)
>                 s[i] = tolower(s[i]);
>         tds_read_conf_section(in, s, tds_parse_locale, locale);
>   }
> 
> Perhaps your OS returns a pointer to the true environment string, not a
> copy?  
> 
> --jkl
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