[Bug libc/10885] New: xlocale support

Please consider adding support for Darwin-style locale support, as in:
http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/xlocale.3.html

These functions make unnecessary to synchronize a multi-threaded program on
setlocale. The Windows C runtime supports analogous functions.

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           Summary: xlocale support
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.12
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: drepper at redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: dan dot colascione at gmail dot com
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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------- Additional Comments From jakub at redhat dot com  2009-11-02 09:19 -------
Why don't you bother to check the facts?  glibc supports the APIs for very long
time (some of the APIs already since 1999 or so, further ones since 2002), and
GNU C library has been the library where these have been originally invented.
See http://people.redhat.com/drepper/tllocale.ps.gz for details, the APIs are
now standardized in POSIX 2008.  So, please don't call this Darwin-style locale
support.

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------- Additional Comments From dan dot colascione at gmail dot com  2009-11-02 09:31 -------
Thank you for the link to the informative paper. I don't see any mention of
uselocale in the documentation that comes with glibc, however. How was I
supposed to know about this feature?

Should I file a new documentation bug instead?

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------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2009-11-02 17:43 -------
Stop reopening bugs.  This is no place to ask question.  And unless you write
the documentation yourself don't bother complaining.

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