Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- "But hey, the fact that I have better taste than anybody else in the universe is just something I have to live with. It's not easy being me." --Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
