Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations
Klaus Ethgen a écrit :
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> Hello Bart,
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> Am Mo den 1. Mär 2010 um 15:13 schrieb Bart Martens:
>> This is the example in "man strptime":
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>> As we can see, there's no "memset" initializing the entire tm structure.
>> It would be nice to have a "memset" added in this example, to illustrate
>> the text "that tm should be initialized before the call".
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> I can support this. Would be very helpful. It should be easy to do the
> change in the man page only but a note to the upstream could be useful
> as well to share that to other distributions too.
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> I would also note in the description of the tm struct that they could be
> other members not listen in the man page. Otherwise some could see it a
> way to initialize all listed members explicit.
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the best for that would be to fill a bug against manpages-dev which
contains this manpage.
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