[rabbitmq-discuss] Newer version of the erlang emulator and RabbitMQ

Thu Sep 11 17:56:58 BST 2008

Peter,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Peter Kieltyka
<peter.kieltyka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gotcha. So presently its in the form of a patch but going to be
> included into the next release of Erlang?

God only knows, I'm not on the OTP team, but this is what Björn-Egil
posted to me a while back:

---snip---

It seems to be an error in cpu_sup for darwin and locales, it should
probably use LC_ALL=C uptime instead of LANG=C uptime.

This should resolve it (not fully tested though). diff follows:

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diff -Naur otp_src_R12B-2/lib/os_mon/src/cpu_sup.erl
otp_src_R12B-2_cpu_sup_fix/lib/os_mon/src/cpu_sup.erl

--- otp_src_R12B-2/lib/os_mon/src/cpu_sup.erl   2008-05-09
15:08:52.228457000 +0200
+++ otp_src_R12B-2_cpu_sup_fix/lib/os_mon/src/cpu_sup.erl
2008-05-09 15:08:43.138456000 +0200
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
    end;
 get_uint32_measurement(Request, #internal{os_type = {unix, darwin}}) ->
    %% Get the load average using uptime, overriding Locale setting.
-    D = os:cmd("LANG=C uptime") -- "\n",
+    D = os:cmd("LANG=C LC_ALL=C uptime") -- "\n",
    %% Here is a sample uptime string from Mac OS 10.3.8 (C Locale):
    %%    "11:17  up 12 days, 20:39, 2 users, load averages: 1.07 0.95 0.66"
    %% The safest way to extract the load averages seems to be grab everything


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I agree, it is sad that output like this is modified by locale
settings which makes it a little difficult to parse. A more robust way
should be implemented then parsing human readables. No such
implementation is on the horizon nor seriously contemplated at the
moment.

---snip---

> The Erlang website shows that Erlang/OTP R12B-4 was released on
> September 3rd, 2008. But that patch is dated for May 19th. Am I
> missing something here?

I don't really know. The only reason why I even asked was because we
use that call in Rabbit and a user reported an issue with OSX and a
German locale, so I began an enquiry. It didn't seem that the issue
had too high a priority with the OTP team, and neither with me,
because the person that reported the bug disappeared and hence I
didn't much point in wasting energy on it (especially seeing as it
works fine for me on OSX).

As for R12B-4, I'm using it, and it seems fine.

Ben


