bin/71616: [PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/yp_mkdb code
Brooks Davis
brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Sep 13 08:46:19 PDT 2004
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:10:26AM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/71616; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
> To: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
> Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: bin/71616: [PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/yp_mkdb code
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:05:27 +0300
>
> On 2004-09-12 16:40, Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:10:55PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > On 2004-09-12 04:37, Dan Lukes <dan at obluda.cz> wrote:
> > > > *** usr.sbin/yp_mkdb/yp_mkdb.c.ORIG Sun Sep 5 18:54:07 2004
> > > > --- usr.sbin/yp_mkdb/yp_mkdb.c Sun Sep 5 19:01:20 2004
> > > > [...]
> > > > - snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lu", time(NULL));
> > > > + snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lu", (long unsigned int)time(NULL));
> > >
> > > Just a minor comment: An (unsigned long) cast should be fine here.
> >
> > Using unsigned here is actually bogus. time_t is a signed type
> > in FreeBSD. SUSv3 says "time_t and clock_t shall be integer or
> > real-floating types." In FreeBSD a cast an integer type is safe.
> >
> > Either long or intmax_t are decent choices today.
>
> Hmmm, true. I had forgotten about negative values of time_t that represent
> dates before 1970.
>
> Thanks :)
SUS doesn't seem to require this, but in practice it's safe even if
time_t is unsigned (the year 2.92E11 bug isn't something I'm going to
worry about :-) and ours is signed.
-- Brooks
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