1 /* Query the name of the current global locale.
2 Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
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9 This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2019. */
19 #ifndef _SETLOCALE_NULL_H
20 #define _SETLOCALE_NULL_H
24 #include "arg-nonnull.h"
32 /* Recommended size of a buffer for a locale name for a single category.
33 On glibc systems, you can have locale names that are relative file names;
34 assume a maximum length 256.
35 In native Windows, in 2018 the longest locale name was of length 58
36 ("FYRO Macedonian_Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.1251"). */
37 #define SETLOCALE_NULL_MAX (256+1)
39 /* Recommended size of a buffer for a locale name with all categories.
40 On glibc systems, you can have locale names that are relative file names;
41 assume maximum length 256 for each. There are 12 categories; so, the
42 maximum total length is 148+12*256.
43 In native Windows, there are 5 categories, and the maximum total length is
45 #define SETLOCALE_NULL_ALL_MAX (148+12*256+1)
47 /* setlocale_null_r (CATEGORY, BUF, BUFSIZE) is like setlocale (CATEGORY, NULL),
49 - it is guaranteed to be multithread-safe,
50 - it returns the resulting locale category name or locale name in the
51 user-supplied buffer BUF, which must be BUFSIZE bytes long.
52 The recommended minimum buffer size is
53 - SETLOCALE_NULL_MAX for CATEGORY != LC_ALL, and
54 - SETLOCALE_NULL_ALL_MAX for CATEGORY == LC_ALL.
55 The return value is an error code: 0 if the call is successful, EINVAL if
56 CATEGORY is invalid, or ERANGE if BUFSIZE is smaller than the length needed
57 size (including the trailing NUL byte). In the latter case, a truncated
58 result is returned in BUF, but still NUL-terminated if BUFSIZE > 0.
59 For this call to be multithread-safe, *all* calls to
60 setlocale (CATEGORY, NULL) in all other threads must have been converted
61 to use setlocale_null_r or setlocale_null as well, and the other threads
62 must not make other setlocale invocations (since changing the global locale
63 has side effects on all threads). */
64 extern int setlocale_null_r (int category
, char *buf
, size_t bufsize
)
65 _GL_ARG_NONNULL ((2));
67 /* setlocale_null (CATEGORY) is like setlocale (CATEGORY, NULL), except that
68 it is guaranteed to be multithread-safe.
69 The return value is NULL if CATEGORY is invalid.
70 For this call to be multithread-safe, *all* calls to
71 setlocale (CATEGORY, NULL) in all other threads must have been converted
72 to use setlocale_null_r or setlocale_null as well, and the other threads
73 must not make other setlocale invocations (since changing the global locale
74 has side effects on all threads). */
75 extern const char *setlocale_null (int category
);
82 #endif /* _SETLOCALE_NULL_H */