Re: Is it an error to call hGetLine on a non-blocking Handle?

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote:

On a whim I tried setting LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 and the problem disappeared. Does hGetLine have undefined behavior if locale environment variables (LANG, LC_*) are unset?

This makes me wonder if it's actually throwing an encoding error which somehow gets overwritten or mis-recorded (similar to the C newcomer's mistake in trusting errno when an error was not indicated). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net