Re: [bug-gnulib] removing asctime_r, ctime_r from the time_r module

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote on 2006-03-10:
> I recently redisovered the fact that asctime_r and ctime_r, like
> asctime and ctime, are unsafe functions in the same sense that gets is
> unsafe: they can overrun their output buffers and there's no simple
> way for the user to detect in advance whether this will happen.  So
> GNU apps shouldn't use these functions, and I propose that we remove
> these function emulations from gnulib, as follows.  Any objections?

Unlike gets() and the termcap functions, these functions don't need a buffer
of arbitrary size. Only the initially specified size was too small. The
functions would be OK to use in GNU programs if a buffer of size 100 was
used rather than a buffer of size 26, no?

Bruno