From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 11 16:34: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-132.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB3637B405; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8464C66D72; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:33:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: rootman 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> References: <01071017182700.00321@blackmirror.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="V0207lvV8h4k8FAm" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01071017182700.00321@blackmirror.xmission.com>; from rootman@xmission.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:14:07PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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