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Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:10:46 +0200

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:45:02 -0800
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Would you please put the new code directly into editfns.c?
> > That would avoid the need for new files, makefile changes, etc.
> 
> OK, I've done this, and installed the following patch.  This patch is
> simpler than what I submitted earlier, since it uses asctime rather
> than formatting by hand.

Thanks.

> 2006-03-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
>       * editfns.c: Do not use ctime, since it has undefined behavior
>       with out-of-range time stamps.  This fixes a bug where
>       (current-time-string '(2814749767106 0)) would make Emacs dump
>       core on 64-bit Solaris 8.  The fix is to use localtime+asctime
>       (checking for in-range results) instead of ctime.  Please see
>       <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg09294.html>
>       for more details about this portability problem.
>       (TM_YEAR_BASE): Move up, so the changes below can use it.
>       (Fdecode_time, Fencode_time): Use TM_YEAR_BASE instead of 1900.
>       (Fdecode_time): Cast tm_year to EMACS_INT, to avoid overflow when
>       int is narrower than EMACS_INT.
>       (Fcurrent_time_string): As with Fformat_time_string, report an
>       invalid time specification if the argument is invalid.  Also,
>       check for out-of-range time stamps; this prevents a buffer overrun
>       that causes Emacs to dump core on 64-bit Solaris sparc, and it
>       preserves the historic behavior of always returning a fixed-size
>       string.

I took the liberty of moving the explanations in these entries to the
respective parts of the source.  I think such explanations belong in
the source, not in the logs.

>    if (! lisp_time_argument (specified_time, &value, NULL))
> -    value = -1;
> -  tem = (char *) ctime (&value);
> +    error ("Invalid time specification");
> +  tm = localtime (&value);
> +  if (! (tm && -999 - TM_YEAR_BASE <= tm->tm_year
> +      && tm->tm_year <= 9999 - TM_YEAR_BASE))
> +    error ("Specified time is not representable");
> +  tem = asctime (tm);

I'm a bit worried about this change: previously current-time-string
never threw an error, while now it will.  In particular, invalid
values of the optional argument will now cause incompatible behavior:
where previously current-time-string would pass -1 to ctime, typically
causing "(null)" be the result, it now signals an error.  Wouldn't it
be better to simply produce some telltale string instead, and not
throw an error?




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