Re: [PATCH] 2.5.10 UTS_VERSION

Keith Owens
2002-04-26T09:53:07Z

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:33:44 +0200,
Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
>Make sure UTS_VERSION is allways in "C" locale.
>Without it you will get (please note the day of week):
>
>~# export LANG=en_US
>~# uname -a
>Linux rosomak.prv 2.5.10 #1 pi± kwi 26 09:31:52 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
>~#

Why is that a problem? If a user wants a kernel uname in their local
language, kbuild has no objection. I need LC_COLLATE=C to get a
consistent filename ordering for kbuild but everything else, including
build messages, date and time can be local.