hello, i made some observation by chance.
bash 3.2 seems to leak environment variables into open() syscalls (older bash 2.0 does not show this behaviour) this may not be an issue here or do not any harm - but at least opening such non-existing files is nonsense and it really looks like a bug to me. regards roland vmhost:/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/bash-3.2 # strace -f ./bash 2>&1 |grep LC_|head open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8lcnumericclctimeclccollateclcmonetaryclcmessagesclcpaperclcnameclcaddressclctelephoneclcmeasurementclcidentificationc/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC_CTYPE=de_DE/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC.utf8lcnumericclctimeclccollateclcmonetaryclcmessagesclcpaperclcnameclcaddressclctelephoneclcmeasurementclcidentificationc/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8lcnumericclctimeclccollateclcmonetaryclcmessagesclcpaperclcnameclcaddressclctelephoneclcmeasurementclcidentificationc/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ____________________________________________________________________ Psssst! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123