Re: Building sharutils 4.13.4 with MinGW

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> 6. shar fails to record the time and the submitter of the archive:
>
>      # Made on  by <>.
>
>    The time was missing because print_header_stamp assumed %Z format
>    in strftime always takes at most 4 characters:
>
>      static char const ftime_fmt[] = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z";
>      /*
>       * All fields are two characters, except %Y is four.
>       */
>      char buffer[sizeof (ftime_fmt) + 4]; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>      time_t now;
>      struct tm * local_time;
>      time (&now);
>      local_time = localtime (&now);
>      strftime (buffer, sizeof (buffer) - 1, ftime_fmt, local_time);
>
>    which is false on Windows;

It is even wrong for Unix, where timezone names can have as much as
TZNAME_MAX (typically 6) characters, and a couple of current zones in
the Olsen database have more than 4 characters, let alone a lot of
historical ones.

Andreas.

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