Re: dd hangs with SIGINT

[Guillaume Chazarain]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> If there is no better way to solve the problem, then I'd consider
> leaving the code the way it is.
>  
Don't forget, there is my workaround, it stills cause gettext() calls in 
the signal handler,
but I cannot make it fail, unlike vanilla.

--- coreutils-5.3.0/src/dd.c
+++ coreutils-5.3.0/src/dd.c
@@ -1535,6 +1535,14 @@
#endif
    }

+  {
+    /*
+     * Initialize gettext here, so that we are sure it won't happen in 
a signal handler.
+     * Lower the burden on translators by avoiding to mark this 
meaningless string.
+     */
+    const char *tmp_msg = "x";
+    tmp_msg = _(tmp_msg);
+  }
  install_handler (SIGINT, interrupt_handler);
  install_handler (SIGQUIT, interrupt_handler);
  install_handler (SIGPIPE, interrupt_handler);


Regards.

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Guillaume