Paul Eggert via tz <[email protected]> writes: > (By the way, offtime_r is not documented in FreeBSD, so is it present > only as a compatibility hack there?)
I held off on documenting it after you rejected the patch. > Getting back to the failure to conform to ISO C and POSIX with respect > to the pointers returned by gmtime and localtime - is that a bug that > FreeBSD would be willing to fix? If so, that'd simplify things on > tzcode's end, if we want to keep roughly in sync. FreeBSD's current behavior seems more useful to me than what the C standard mandates. I realize it's easier said than done, but I would prefer at least trying to get the standard changed instead. > > The DETECT_TZ_CHANGES patch may be of interest to others, but it should > > be attributed to NetApp, Inc. rather than to FreeBSD. > What form should the attribution take? I don't see attribution in the > FreeBSD time source code. I assume Guy Harris wrote that so I'll cc > him. I have no idea who Guy Harris is or why you think he's involved. You can see the attribution in the commit message here: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=ddedf2a11eb20af1ee52cb3da70a57c21904af8f An earlier version of this patch was posted here and rejected in 2021: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030335.html DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]
