[lvm-devel] lvm and locales memory issue

[Zdenek Kabelac]

Hi

As we discussed yesterday at the confcall the problem with mlockall() and way
we cannot easily disable locales, because of posix complaince and
internationalized error message.

How about adding some global{} configure option ?

e.i.:  "use_plain_C_locales = 0/1"

defaulting to 0.

Anaconda and eventually system admin who cares about memory might easily
enable it by switching to 1 - it could be slightly more confortable then
writing wrapper scripts around lvm command for the same thing.

The question is how we implement this - either we delay activation of
setlocale until we read config - or  we just call setlocale("C"...) just
before mlockall() if this is set by configuration?

Any better idea?

Zdenek