Bug#69045: tzconfig doesn't allow choices that are substrings of other choices.

[Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>]

retitle 69045 libc6: [PATCH] tzconfig doesn't allow choices that are substrings of other choices.
thanks

[Rebeka Thomas <beka_thomas@yahoo.com>]
> this should be easy to fix by adding a check to see if the typed
> string is a full valid choice BEFORE checking for ambiguity.

Lightly tested, seems to work..

Peter

--- tzconfig~	Wed Apr 26 20:01:45 2000
+++ tzconfig	Sun Aug 13 00:54:07 2000
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@
 
 while [ $valid = no ]; do
 	if [ -n "$zone" ]; then
+		# in case of ambiguity, exact match wins
+		if grep -q -i "^$continent/$zone\$" $TIMEZONES; then
+			timezone=`grep -i "^$continent/$zone\$" $TIMEZONES`
+			zone_info
+			valid=yes
+			break
+		fi
 		number=`grep -i -c "^$continent/$zone" $TIMEZONES`
 		if [ $number -eq 1 ]; then
 			timezone=`grep -i "^$continent/$zone" $TIMEZONES`