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From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: perl 4.0 patch #1
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Date: 21 Apr 91 00:57:49 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.183556.16756@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr18.000041.16584@sics.se>
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In article <1991Apr18.000041.16584@sics.se>, jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) writes:
|> Extract from bug report:
|>     There is a bug in tzload(), called by ctime(), in SunOS 4.1.  tzload()
|>     calls allocall(), which malloc's n chars for the timezone string.  Then,
|>     tzload() writes a NULL into the n+1'th char.

Fixed in 5.0, I just checked.

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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com