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From: knutson@weber.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl 4.0 patch #1
Message-ID: <3012@weber.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 17:48:12 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.183556.16756@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr18.000041.16584@sics.se> <550@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: knutson@weber.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson)
Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
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In article <550@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>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.

This is fine for SPARC based systems, but what are all the thousands of
Sun3s going to do when 5.0 isn't released for them?  SunOS 4.1.1 is
it.  There is no 5.0 for them.

Jim Knutson
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Jim Knutson
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cs.utexas.edu!milano!knutson
Wk: (512) 338-3362