On 07/24/2017 08:24 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >>>> But that's just scanning a decimal integer to time_t. >>> >>> It's not a question of whether I can or can't convert a string into an >>> integer, rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s > >> I see your point but... "portability" is kind of the wrong expression >> here. If you have portability in mind, you should *not* use %s at all. > > The point is, if I can use "%s" with strftime() on Cygwin, then I should be > able to use "%s" with strptime(), > but currently there's a disconcert with that. Indeed, "%s" is a GNU > extension yet it has been on Linux for years, > so why not here but only 50%?
Demand. I patches strftime to add %s because Coreutils wanted it. But coreutils doesn't use strptime, so I had no reason to add it. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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