Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-22 Thread Todd C. Miller
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:26:47 +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > yeah, I first had that and then deleted it. OK. - todd

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-22 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:58:44AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:44:00 +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > And here's the man page diff, our ctime and asctime actually do not > > ever return NULL, while posix allows that. > > Isn't it worth documenting that ctime and asctim

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-21 Thread David Walker
Rod Whitworth > I feel that date should spit out an error message rather than > crash even if it only happens when some idiot plays with the numbers. Every time you do that I get a little bit sadder. Leave something for me.

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-21 Thread Todd C. Miller
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:44:00 +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > And here's the man page diff, our ctime and asctime actually do not > ever return NULL, while posix allows that. Isn't it worth documenting that ctime and asctime are allowed to return NULL, even though they do not on OpenBSD? - todd

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:34:51AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:08:18PM +1300, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > ... > > > Right. what happens is that localtime(3) returns NULL, because the > > > year is not represe

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:08:18PM +1300, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > ... > > Right. what happens is that localtime(3) returns NULL, because the > > year is not representable as an int. struct tm.tm_year must be an int > > according to posix. >

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-21 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: ... > Right. what happens is that localtime(3) returns NULL, because the > year is not representable as an int. struct tm.tm_year must be an int > according to posix. > > The diff below catches the case. ok guenther@ > But it does not solve

Re: 5.5beta wierds

2014-01-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:52:23PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > I had a short run-up of the first 5.5 i386 snap install and it > looked pretty much as expected but a more recent one showed up and I > grabbed it and loaded it onto my little Shuttle. > > The dmesg is below but I'll make some obser

5.5beta wierds

2014-01-20 Thread Rod Whitworth
I had a short run-up of the first 5.5 i386 snap install and it looked pretty much as expected but a more recent one showed up and I grabbed it and loaded it onto my little Shuttle. The dmesg is below but I'll make some observations first. Unlike the earlier snap the screen does not get entirel