Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes: > So I changed GNU tar to simply call the system strftime. (Calling > nstrftime, or even nstrftime-limited, seems like it would also drag in > the unwanted multithreaded code.) This is good enough for GNU tar's > purpose. At some later point, someone can take up the issue of > counting columns vs counting bytes.
That change would make the function name confusing, since fprintf returns the number of bytes instead of columns. Collin
