Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:04:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ctime() and friends broken? Message-ID: <20010919160400.D66974@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <152166323750.20010919145655@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:56:55PM %2B0200 References: <152166323750.20010919145655@buz.ch>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:56:55PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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> Hello,
> I'm trying to either use ctime() or strftime() to convert an int
> containing the seconds since the epoch to a human readable string,
> but
> so far, the only thing I get are segfaults:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <time.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> char timestr[40];
> ctime_r((time_t *) time(NULL), timestr);
> printf("Time: %s\n", timestr);
> return 0;
> }
>
> Will result in a segfault and nothing else. The same happens when
> I try to feed the int to gmtime() so I could use the resulting struct
> tm as input to strftime(). What am I doing wrong (4.4RC)?
>
time(3) returns ``time_t'' not a ``time_t *''. Try that:
time_t tm;
tm = time(NULL);
ctime_r(&tm, timestr);
Cheers,
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