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From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:19:54 +0100
Subject: lvm and locales memory issue
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Hi

As we discussed yesterday at the confcall the problem with mlockall() and way
we cannot easily disable locales, because of posix complaince and
internationalized error message.

How about adding some global{} configure option ?

e.i.:  "use_plain_C_locales = 0/1"

defaulting to 0.

Anaconda and eventually system admin who cares about memory might easily
enable it by switching to 1 - it could be slightly more confortable then
writing wrapper scripts around lvm command for the same thing.

The question is how we implement this - either we delay activation of
setlocale until we read config - or  we just call setlocale("C"...) just
before mlockall() if this is set by configuration?

Any better idea?

Zdenek