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Re: CYGWIN=codepage? Or LC_CTYPE=foo?
On Apr 7 13:38, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > What about calling this tool only once in a postinstall script and
> > creating a file /etc/sysconfig/i18n from the output which then gets
> > evaluated in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh or lang.csh?
>
> I assume the desire here is to minimize login shell startup time
> penalty? It's still an extra file to find/stat/source, and I doubt the
> runtime of the tool would be more than a couple of w32api calls. Doing
> it once would also fail to catch cases where the user changes their
> Windows locale.
>
> I think we can keep the performance in check by adding the logic to the
> base-files' 'profile' rather than adding a new file to profile.d, since
> that must be executed anyway regardless.
Which means, every shell package has to be changed to call the tool
in the profiles which come with the shell. Adding profile.d/*.c?sh
files does not require this.
Corinna
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