On 10/29/26 5:12 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Okt 29 2026, Robert Elz wrote:Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:35:39 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Boche=C5=84ski?= <[email protected]> Message-ID: <CAGiELgqdhNdRa+Y4m1ZH2Kik2L93=Jq=msz7n_bg5m_hcpr...@mail.gmail.com> | On restore, sv_locale calls libintl's setlocale, which on macOS asks | CoreFoundation for the preferred languages; CoreFoundation is not usable in | the child of a multi-threaded process after fork, and the process crashes. | macOS's crash report says so explicitly: That looks like a macOS bug to me, there's nothing I see in POSIX that restricts when setlocale() can be called.In the forked child of a multi-threaded process only async-signal-safe function can be called, which setlocale isn't required to be.
I might be more sympathetic to this argument if bash had created multiple
threads, or if setlocale() were documented as doing so. As it is, it's
just another macOS quirk to work around.
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