Hi! > > Extfs should be fixed to use some sane format, > > not ls -l... Fish has one quite reasonable... > > This is quite irrelevant here. If the format of the archive allows 15th > month (which would be impossible if time_t was used) and the archiver is > stupid enough to output the date as is, no amount of armoring the date can > make it valid.
Well, if fish-like format was used, something like Nfile_name Dsome_unparsable_junk Prwxr--r-- would be passed to midnight. Midnight would refuse to interpret date, but its parser would not be confused by that junk and would interpret other fields properly... Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel