[OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Gnome and the future

[Irek Szczesniak]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Alex Caudill <alex.caudill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/12, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
>> If this is holding up someone else who wants to do real work of porting
>> dependency software (Gnome 3, etc.) contact me off list and I'll see if I
>> can either allocate some weekend/evening time to do the work myself,
>> or provide guidance to someone else who wants to do it.
>>
>>       - Garrett
>
> As a stopgap, it's trivial to write stubs for the *_l functions. For example:
>
> int strcoll_l(const char *l, const char *r, locale_t loc) {return
> strcoll(l, r);}
>
> They all follow this pattern. It's not a real solution but I found it useful.

This is useless because you still do not have newlocale(), duplocale()
or uselocale() which create or use the locale_t object.
The point of the new apis is that you can have an unlimited number of
locale_t objects, all with different properties. As side effect
different threads can use different locale_t objects, giving threads
the ability to run in different locales. But this feature is NOT
limited to per-thread locales as some people may think.

Irek