On 2024-02-18 06:38, Bruno Haible wrote:
- How can the caller do the caching for something internal to the callee?
The caller calls tzalloc, gets a timezone object, and calls tzfree when
it no longer needs that timezone object.
- The NetBSD code [1][2] does locking in the top-level fun
Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Note also: The above approach will need locking, in order to protect caches
> > (in 1) the data for a single time zone, in 3) the contents of tzdata.zi).
>
> The idea I had was to go more in the NetBSD / TZDB direction. These
> implementations don't need either locks or loc
On 2024-02-17 19:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
Brian Inglis wrote:
I was looking around ... that required data can be shrunk to ~300KB using
Brotli!?
Whereas the entire tzdata.zi (without comments, and with abbreviations) is
only around 100 KB. I'll definitely prefer the latter.
Other options wou
On 2024-02-17 18:38, Bruno Haible wrote:
Note also: The above approach will need locking, in order to protect caches
(in 1) the data for a single time zone, in 3) the contents of tzdata.zi).
The idea I had was to go more in the NetBSD / TZDB direction. These
implementations don't need either l
Paul Eggert wrote:
> > The first question is how to include tzdata in gnulib.
> >- AFAICS, the main data file (without comments) is tzdata.zi and is about
> > 100 KB large. It can be upgraded simply by copying the newest tzdata.zi
> > from a newer tzdata distribution. Including such a
Brian Inglis wrote:
> I was looking around ... that required data can be shrunk to ~300KB using
> Brotli!?
Whereas the entire tzdata.zi (without comments, and with abbreviations) is
only around 100 KB. I'll definitely prefer the latter.
> Other options would be for some selection of generated da
On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:46:50 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote on bug-gnulib:
I wrote:
For these modules, the next function to provide in an MT-safe way is
localtime_r.
Our gmtime_r and localtime_r are MT-safe on native Windows. I ran the
test-gmtime_r-mt and test-localtime_r-mt tests for 2000 seconds
On 2024-02-11 04:46, Bruno Haible wrote:
The first question is how to include tzdata in gnulib.
- AFAICS, the main data file (without comments) is tzdata.zi and is about
100 KB large. It can be upgraded simply by copying the newest tzdata.zi
from a newer tzdata distribution. Includin
I wrote:
> For these modules, the next function to provide in an MT-safe way is
> localtime_r.
Our gmtime_r and localtime_r are MT-safe on native Windows. I ran the
test-gmtime_r-mt and test-localtime_r-mt tests for 2000 seconds each, and
they did not crash.
But the problem is that localtime() an
