My old script contained "ping -i 0.5 192.168.1.1" command does not work anymore, because new iputils uses locale-dependent strtod(). The commit introduced this is http://www.linux-ipv6.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=gitroot/iputils.git;a=commit;h=04d3f79834957dc760850b00b8b52efa14e74757 I think that it breaks compatibility and should fallback to C locale or old method when strtod() fails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "ping -i 0.5 192.168.1.1" with locale that uses "," delimiter for float numbers, e.g. "ru_RU.UTF-8" or "de_DE.UTF-8". Actual Results: ping: bad timing interval Expected Results: ping with 0.5 seconds interval
Created attachment 350346 [details, diff] fallback to C locale if strtod() fails I also noticed that it happens only with USE="idn", when LC_ALL is not reset. Proposed patch is in attachment.
We couldn't reproduce this on lastest iputils [1]. Could you try iputils from ::ixit overlay [2] and retest? [1] https://github.com/iputils/iputils [2] http://gpo.zugaina.org/net-misc/iputils
(In reply to David Heidelberger (okias) from comment #2) any the commit that fixed it is ... ? the code in question is fairly simple, so it should be easy to track down what changed.
(In reply to David Heidelberger (okias) from comment #2) > We couldn't reproduce this on lastest iputils [1]. Could you try iputils > from ::ixit overlay [2] and retest? The problem persists with latest iputils. Steps to reproduce with upstream: 1) make USE_IDN=1 2) generate "ru_RU.UTF-8" or "de_DE.UTF-8" locale 3) run LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" ping -i 0.5 g.co
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix -i number parsing in some locales http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/iputils/files/iputils-20121221-strtod.patch?rev=1.1 http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/iputils/iputils-99999999.ebuild?r1=1.15&r2=1.16
