On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:13:32PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > printf("%s", bogusPointer);
>
> This is the exact same problem. The segfault you get in strftime is
> caused by -1 being used as an array position (foo[-1]).
So glibc chose an implementation which is not particularly safe.
> As I said, you got this problem by ignoring practical programming, which
> means checking return values.
True in this case, but it doesn't mean there isn't a more direct
approach to the same problem.
Hamish
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