Re: cat file dabbles in locales?

[Jim Meyering]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim> That set-up is performed (via setlocale) for internationalized 
> diagnostics.
>
> Maybe only do the set-up once we intend to actually give a
> diagnostic (but I didn't look at the source, so probably never mind.)

But what if the error is that we're out of an important resource
like file descriptors?  Then we'd be unable to perform the initialization,
so there'd be no way to give a proper diagnostic.