core dump from within asctime_r()
Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Tue Feb 2 22:10:57 UTC 2010
> It would be possible to make ctime() be
>
> tm = localtime(t);
> if (tm == NULL)
> return NULL;
> return asctime(tm);
>
> and in theory that would be adequate, but I'm actually going to suggest moving the fix into asctime() (into asctime_r() really of course), and have
> asctime_r() start
>
> if (timeptr == NULL)
> return NULL;
>
> I think that's a safer fix. Appended is the patch I suggest, made
> against the tzcode2009t sources (latest I believe.)
Any sentiment for (or against)...
if (timeptr == NULL)
return "?";
...or...
return "??? ??? ?? ??:??:?? ????\n";
...or some variant?
--ado
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