Fix ctime() standard compliance bug

fixes issue2209:
ctime() was updated in 0.9.31 to call localtime_r() instead of
localtime() to
avoid using a static buffer. Unfortunately, this change replaces the
static
buffer (which is zeroed out on initialization) with an uninitialized
local
buffer.

In the common case, this has no effect. However, with a sufficiently
large
time_t value, the value returned differs from that returned by
asctime(localtime(t)), and thus violates the ANSI/ISO standard.

An example input is (on a 64-bit machine):
time_t t = 0x7ffffffffff6c600;

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
David A Ramos 2010-07-27 13:10:15 +02:00 committed by Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
parent d4ede2b0a4
commit f6651fa449
2 changed files with 45 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ char *ctime(const time_t *t)
* localtime's static buffer:
*/
struct tm xtm;
memset(&xtm, 0, sizeof(xtm));
return asctime(localtime_r(t, &xtm));
}

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test/time/tst-ctime.c Normal file
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/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
/* testcase for ctime(3) with large time
* Copyright (C) 2010 David A Ramos <daramos@gustav.stanford.edu>
* Licensed under the LGPL v2.1, see the file COPYING.LIB in this tarball.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#define MAX_POSITIVE(type) (~0 & ~((type) 1 << (sizeof(type)*8 - 1)))
int do_test(int argc, char **argv) {
char *correct = 0, *s;
int status;
/* need a very high positive number (e.g., max - 1024) */
time_t test = MAX_POSITIVE(time_t) - 1024;
s = asctime(localtime(&test));
if (s) {
// copy static buffer to heap
correct = malloc(strlen(s)+1);
strcpy(correct, s);
}
s = ctime(&test);
printf("ANSI:\t%suClibc:\t%s", correct, s);
if (s != correct && strcmp(correct, s))
status = EXIT_FAILURE;
else
status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
if (correct)
free(correct);
return status;
}
#include <test-skeleton.c>