Add a dummy call to icu::TimeZone.createDefault() before the sandbox kicks in.

This is necessary to get the datetime formatting work correctly in a renderer process (e.g. FTP directory list that is now done in a renderer process.)

BUG=23361,23082
TEST=...

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/243060

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@27999 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/chrome/browser/zygote_main_linux.cc b/chrome/browser/zygote_main_linux.cc
index fd365ab..eb0ef42 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/zygote_main_linux.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/zygote_main_linux.cc
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "base/path_service.h"
 #include "base/pickle.h"
 #include "base/rand_util.h"
+#include "base/scoped_ptr.h"
 #include "base/sys_info.h"
 #include "base/unix_domain_socket_posix.h"
 
@@ -37,6 +38,8 @@
 #include <selinux/context.h>
 #endif
 
+#include "unicode/timezone.h"
+
 // http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxZygote
 
 static const int kMagicSandboxIPCDescriptor = 5;
@@ -377,6 +380,12 @@ static void PreSandboxInit() {
     const char* locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
     LOG_IF(WARNING, locale == NULL) << "setlocale failed.";
 
+    // ICU DateFormat class (used in base/time_format.cc) needs to get the
+    // Olson timezone ID by accessing the zoneinfo files on disk. After
+    // TimeZone::createDefault is called once here, the timezone ID is
+    // cached and there's no more need to access the file system.
+    scoped_ptr<icu::TimeZone> zone(icu::TimeZone::createDefault());
+
     FilePath module_path;
     if (PathService::Get(base::DIR_MODULE, &module_path))
       media::InitializeMediaLibrary(module_path);