Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:33:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: rootman <rootman@xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: UNIX TIP: DATE CHANGE SEPT 9TH Message-ID: <20010711163354.B90831@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <01071017182700.00321@blackmirror.xmission.com>; from rootman@xmission.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:14:07PM -0600 References: <01071017182700.00321@blackmirror.xmission.com>
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--V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:14:07PM -0600, rootman wrote: >=20 > Does anyone know if this could be a potential problem with FreeBSD? I doubt if there are many apps which store time_t's as an ASCII representation and might therefore overflow. There are even less likely to be any instances in the FreeBSD code itself. The major potential problem might be in weakly-typed languages which treat ascii strings and numerical values equivalently, encouraging programmers to mix up types and possibly make assumptions about array sizing. I don't know off-hand of any languages where this is likely to be true Kris --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7TOJhWry0BWjoQKURAmKRAJ9kNxAHjzih32S6FgpQXodFUDXmxACg+uNY o91dkZH3XqEXC74uQmhe0jo= =iAmN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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