At Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:31:59 +0000, Will Newton wrote: > In the glibc CVS on the glibc-2-2-branch branch, there is a change to > mktime() > that returns -1 for any date before the epoch. The libc6 package in woody > does not contain this patch. Is this intentional?
I don't know this problem well, but woody's glibc is not the latest glibc-2-2-branch. It was freezed/released for a long ago. So a lot of modifications are missing. > Will this patch be applied > at some point in the future, or can I guarantee this behaviour for the life > of woody? We have no plan to apply this patch, so this behavior may be appeared until you upgrade your libc6 that is existed in sarge/sid. Regards, -- gotom
