Re: strftime("%z",...) on Solaris does NOT work!

[Christian Hopp]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Christian Hopp <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Christian Hopp wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> >>
> >> > Christian Hopp <address@hidden> writes:
> >> >
> >> > > I gonna get a GNU strftime replacement, write a configure test and
> >> > > include it!
> >> >
> >> > Great! But hurry up, we need to release monit tomorrow.
> >> >
> >>
> >> GNU strftime is a real biest!!!!  The third I have tried seems to work...
> >> sh-utils 1.16 is okay... 2.0 gave seg-faults... core-utils 5.0 does not
> >> even compile.
> >>
> >
> > I hope we can do a clean POSIX hack for then next version!
>
> It's my fault, I replaced a working version you already had coded[1],
> with %z because I thought it was simpler and more easy to use. But
> with all the work you had to go through with this on Solaris I'm
> wondering of it was worth it. Ah, well now it's done, but I'll try not
> to be so fast in the future :-/
>
> [1] See get_RFC1123date:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/monit/monit/util.c?rev=1.55&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

I have already forgotten about this dirty hack of us. (-:  The years go
by.... do you still remember the time when............

Anyways... BOTH are hackw... for ours we know what its doing but we are
limited to the systems we can test on!  For the GNU one... mhhhh... look
at it.... it might run on any posix system.... but can we trust it.... the
sh-utils-2.0 version of strftime.c did even coredumps after an ENDLESS
LOOP calling itself! I am +0 on keeping the GNU one.

CHopp


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