Re: removing asctime_r, ctime_r from the time_r module

[Ben Pfaff]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> I recently redisovered the fact that actime_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?

It would be nice to invent safe replacements, e.g. nasctime(),
xasctime().  But I can understand that these functions might not
be important enough to bother.
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