Re: removing asctime_r, ctime_r from the time_r module

2006-03-12 Thread Jim Meyering
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 thi

Re: removing asctime_r, ctime_r from the time_r module

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good idea. > Thanks for doing that. OK, I've checked it into gnulib. I've also copied gnulib/m4/time_r.m4 into coreutils and made the obvious corresponding changes. Here's the diff, for coreutils: 2006-03-12 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>