[tz] NetBSD and Android bionic APIs for tz values
Alan Barrett
apb at cequrux.com
Mon Aug 25 10:53:33 UTC 2014
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>On Aug 25, 12:32am, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
>| In doing so it struck me that the proposal for new functions tm_strftime
>| and tm_strftime_l is overkill, and that it's better to simply fix
>| strftime and strftime_l to do the right thing with %z and %Z, as that's
>| what glibc does. I understand there's an argument that POSIX doesn't
>| allow this behavior, but it's not clear to me that the argument is
>| correct, and anyway NetBSD would be in good company when it's compatible
>| with tzcode and with GNU/Linux here. So attached is a a revised patch
>| that simply removes strftime_z/strftime_lz and fixes
>| strftime/strftime_l. The rest of the patch is the same as before.
Thanks. For tzcode, I think that makes sense.
>Thanks Paul, looks fine to me. Since we can't really bump libc (and
>the function removal can break things; even the const removal changes
>the signature for c++, but I guess that's not that important) the
>choices are:
> - remove the functions and if older code used them the code
> will stop working
> - keep the functions, but put them in compat, removing them
> from headers.
>
>I guess I'll bring it up and see what others have to say.
Yes, we should discuss that in a NetBSD mailing list.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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