Java 1.3.1, NPTL kernel

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Hugh McGuirk wrote:

> I found a fix to this was simply to change the locale:
> In /etc/sysconfig/i18n ,the line 
> LANG="en_GB.UTF8"
> to:
> LANG="en_GB."

With a trailing period?  That should be removed.


> Will the above cause any other issues?

If change LANG helps it means the JVM is not multibyte-locale clean.
The locale is (should be?) used for all kind of internal things like
reading text files.  By changing the locale any text file read has to be
encodined using ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.  You have to know yourself
whether this is a problem.


> What other incompatibilities should i expect between Java1.3.1 and a
> NPTL kernel?

There are many things which will go wrong with old JVMs.  The thread
library behaves differently (but correctly) now.  The exec-shield
functionality is causing problems.

No version earlier than 1.4.2 has been shown to work correctly.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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