W dniu 14.05.2015 o 19:44, Tim Rühsen pisze: > Am Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2015, 15:35:29 schrieb Hubert Tarasiuk: >> W dniu 13.05.2015 o 10:24, Tim Ruehsen pisze:>> >> We could do that but I am not sure that it would be good solution. Are >> there any cases when gmtime would have a good reason to fail? >> I think that when a function like gmtime fails, it could mean that >> something is seriously wrong; and perhaps we should not do anything but >> crash in that case (just as we do in case of xmalloc, for example). >> What do you think? > > In case of malloc failing we hardly can recover or continue proper work. > In the case of gmtime failing, we could easily recover and continue our work > (and inform the user, that something weird is going on). This makes Wget more > robust and more reliable. > > I wouldn't make assumptions on reasons that causes gmtime to fail. It might > be > anything, implementations will differ from OS to OS and from library to > library. I saw lot's of interesting things in ~30 years of software > development. I remember seeing time() returning -1 (sporadically, some bug in > the library code, i guess). > > People try to compile and run Wget on almost *any* system, even on 20 or 30 > year old systems. > Understood.
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