Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:25:48 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/9506: cron(8) is not Y2K compliant Message-ID: <99Jan15.162511est.40330@border.alcanet.com.au>
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>Number: 9506
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: cron(8) is not Y2K compliant
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 14 21:30:03 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Jeremy
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Alcatel Australia
>Environment:
>Description:
cron(8) uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100 for 2000.
Use snprintf to protect against excessively long timezone names.
>How-To-Repeat:
Code inspection
>Fix:
--- /3.0/src/usr.sbin/cron/lib/misc.c Mon Sep 15 16:39:25 1997
+++ ./misc.c Fri Jan 15 14:48:23 1999
@@ -619,9 +619,12 @@
{
time_t t = clock ?*clock :time(0L);
struct tm *tm = localtime(&t);
- static char ret[30]; /* zone name might be >3 chars */
+ static char ret[32]; /* zone name might be >3 chars */
- (void) sprintf(ret, "%s, %2d %s %2d %02d:%02d:%02d %s",
+ if (tm->tm_year >= 100)
+ tm->tm_year += 1900;
+
+ (void) snprintf(ret, sizeof(ret), "%s, %2d %s %2d %02d:%02d:%02d %s",
DowNames[tm->tm_wday],
tm->tm_mday,
MonthNames[tm->tm_mon],
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