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Boy I hate locale stuff. For code I thought was pretty robust, Jaromir sure proved that it wasn't. Anyway, me thinks this commit closes some gaps and will cause top to behave appropriately under various locale settings. It does *not* permit top to respond to the ',' and '.' floating point separator without regard to the locale. It does, however, enforce proper LC_NUMERIC responses. Let's look on this commit as an interim solution until Jaromir can create that proposed 'fp_decode' function. Who knows, he might even borrow some of our mkfloat(). [ An aside: the coreutils sleep and timeout programs ] [ claim to permit floating point arguments. However, ] [ neither one will accept the comma separator should ] [ the locale be a country that in fact uses a comma. ] [ In other words, with this commit we are way ahead! ] Reference(s): http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,1 Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
COMPATIBILITY
This code is intended for use with Linux 2.6.xx, 3.x and
hopefully all future kernels.
INSTALLATION
If you are using git version of the project you need extra step.
./autogen.sh
After that, and everyone using .tar.xz version of procps-ng, can
do normal build. Read './configure --help' to select options for
your needs.
./configure
make
make install
If you have DejaGNU installed you can run optional test suite.
make check
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
See Documentation/BUGS file.
PACKAGING
If you are a downstream maintainer (packager) for a Linux
distribution, please avoid causing troubles. This section
applies to you.
Avoid maintaining distribution specific patches. Send your
patches to upstream, where they are at least reviewed, if not
included.
Please forward bug reports. If your bug database is public and
busy enough to bother with, please make this known. Follow
Debian's lead in making the bug database easy to comment on via
email without need for an account.
For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags
to the CFLAGS variable.
UPSTREAM & BUG REPORTS
procps-ng <procps@freelists.org>