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Re: BUG in date program causes memory overflow if resulting datestrin g
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: BUG in date program causes memory overflow if resulting datestrin g is empty |
Date: |
28 Nov 2000 18:52:16 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
Martin Oberhuber <address@hidden> wrote:
| When you execute
| date +"%Z"
| in an environment where the time zone is not defined (e.g. cygwin),
| the date program consumes all available memory until it terminates.
|
| Looking at the code in src/shellutils/src/date.c:341 , we see
| the problem -- strftime(), which is used to format the date
...
Thanks for the report and patch.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/