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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:26:18 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle localtime errors in ctime

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:19:29PM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Um, the previous time an opposite direction was taken:
> > > http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/09/05/17
> > 
> > I found this in POSIX while reviewing the new patch:
> > 
> > [CX] [Option Start] Upon successful completion, ctime_r() shall return
> > a pointer to the string pointed to by buf. When an error is
> > encountered, a null pointer shall be returned. [Option End]
> > 
> > So while ISO C may not have anything to say about it (i.e. it's UB in
> > plain C), POSIX does seem to require handling the error. I forgot we'd
> > looked at this before but it seems we missed what POSIX had to say.
> 
> .... even though the quoted POSIX spec specifically mentions ctime_r, not ctime?
> (musl implementation of ctime_r does appear to miss that, though)

Doh, I misread. Sorry. I'll go fix that now...

Rich

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