FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:52:37 -0300
Luis Lavena <luislavena AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > It might be that the first use of fopen() in FreeTDS is for the locale 
> > file.
> >
> 
> Is the file copied to the target? perhaps the crash associated is
> because the locale file cannot be read or is not in the expected
> location.

I'm not answering for the OP.  I just want to repeat what Frediano said: 
fopen(3) returns NULL on failure, and that case is handled in 
tds_get_locale().  FreeTDS won't crash if there's no locale.conf; it uses 
compiled-in defaults instead.  But if fopen(3) crashes, that's another story. 
 On an embedded platform such as the one under discussion, that's not a crazy 
possibility.  

If fopen(3) crashes and the first call to fopen(3) is in tds_get_locale(), 
then we can't say fopen(3) works.  Maybe it doesn't work at all; maybe it 
doesn't work if the file is missing.  Both cases are easy to verify and ISTM 
worth checking.  

Or, maybe this is just a wild goose chase.  In any case, it doesn't look like 
a FreeTDS bug.  

--jkl