Subject: pkg/14581: timezone handling bug in cronolog package
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/13/2001 22:15:57
>Number: 14581
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: timezone handling bug in cronolog package
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 13 20:17:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dave Huang
>Release: NetBSD 1.5Y
>Organization:
Name: Dave Huang | Mammal, mammal / their names are called /
INet: khym@azeotrope.org | they raise a paw / the bat, the cat /
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>Environment:
System: NetBSD yerfable.azeotrope.org 1.5Y NetBSD 1.5Y (YERFABLE) #182: Sat Nov 3 03:42:35 CST 2001 khym@yerfable.azeotrope.org:/usr/src.local/sys/arch/alpha/compile/YERFABLE alpha
Architecture: alpha
Machine: alpha
>Description:
cronolog uses localtime_r(), but never calls tzset() to
initialize the timezone info. As a result, one line goes into an
incorrectly-named logfile (it later calls localtime(), which
initializes the TZ info).
>How-To-Repeat:
Use cronolog with the timezone set to Central Time. If the
format string is log.%Y%U, for example, notice that a logfile named
log.200144 is created, even though date +"%Y%U" shows 200145.
>Fix:
Add this file as patch-ab
--- cronolog.c.orig Tue Nov 13 22:02:01 2001
+++ cronolog.c Tue Nov 13 22:02:16 2001
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@
DEBUG(("periodicity = %s\n", periods[periodicity]));
+ tzset();
/* Loop, waiting for data on standard input */
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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