From f791cc4b4470c90ac8b4fd2205a840d0f222513e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:40:25 +0000
Subject: bail out at startup with an error message if LC_ALL is set

---
 lib/Smokeping.pm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/Smokeping.pm b/lib/Smokeping.pm
index 9f8c8a7..6721a1b 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping.pm
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ setlogsock('unix')
 # make sure we do not end up with , in odd places where one would expect a '.'
 # we set the environment variable so that our 'kids' get the benefit too
 $ENV{LC_NUMERIC}='C';
-POSIX::setlocale(&POSIX::LC_NUMERIC,"");
+if (POSIX::setlocale(&POSIX::LC_NUMERIC,"") ne "C") {
+    die("Resetting LC_NUMERIC failed - try removing LC_ALL from the environment");
+}
+
 
 use File::Basename;
 use Smokeping::Examples;
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