[OpenWrt-Devel] musl libc and timezone

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2014-11-19 21:33, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 09:24:27PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2014-11-19 12:58, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 08:24:49AM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> On 18/11/2014 10:54, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
>> >> > So in my opinion the "better" fix would be to populate the TZ environment
>> >> > variable.
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> so if a process is spawned and thent he TZ changes the process is stuck
>> >> on the old TZ ? that seems totally broken
>> >> 
>> >> 	John
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > hehe, I knew I was overlooking something :)
>> > 
>> > So would a patch to musl that reads /etc/TZ everytime be acceptable?
>> I'd like to leave that decision to musl upstream. Please submit it to
>> the musl list first before you send a patch for OpenWrt.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please disregard the patch I already sent...
> 
> I don't know if I have a chance to get something like that merged, given their
> pragmatic view of what a libc should do. This is the reason I tried to avoid
> changes to musl in the first place and use the TZ environment variable instead.
Isn't a pragmatic view a good thing here? ;)
Even if the patch isn't accepted, it's still worth a try. We can of
course carry a non-upstream patch in OpenWrt if things don't work out,
but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

- Felix
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