Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Even in glibc, until a few months ago, those functions could overrun the classic (and recommended) 26-byte buffer. I reported the bugs here: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1460 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 > GNU apps shouldn't use these functions, and I propose that we remove > these function emulations from gnulib, as follows. Any objections? Good idea. Thanks for doing that. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
