On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> writes: > > Russ Allbery <rra <at> debian.org> writes: > Programs that don't check the return status of functions that they think > won't ever fail are a bit of a pet peeve of mine, in part because it would > make a lot of sense for localtime() to be able to fail when the question > it was asked is undefined. But no one ever checks the return status of > localtime() for much the same reason that you spell out for not checking > the return status of crypt(), which means that localtime() is required by > all this legacy code to return arbitrary nonsense instead of an error.
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