Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> The Single Unix Spec's definition of wcsftime says that the above
>>> risks a buffer overrun, and the correct second argument would be
>>> MAX_L10N_DATA.  Now I realize that SUS is a poor guide for
>>> Windows-specific code, but are you sure this is right?
> 
>> Now that I read it again, I think you're right. What MS says is:
>> "If the total number of characters, including the terminating null, is
>> more than maxsize, both strftime and wcsftime return 0 and the contents
>> of strDest are indeterminate."
> 
>> The important difference being "character" vs "bytes", right?
> 
> SUS phrases it as
> 
> "If the total number of resulting wide-character codes including the
> terminating null wide-character code is no more than maxsize, wcsftime()
> returns the number of wide-character codes placed into the array pointed
> to by wcs, not including the terminating null wide-character
> code. Otherwise 0 is returned and the contents of the array are
> indeterminate."
> 
> so it's very clear that maxsize is counted in wchars.
> 
> Perhaps someone could experiment to double-check what Windows does.

Read up a bit more and compared, it definitely seems to mean the same
thing. My tests seem to agree as well.

I'll change it to MAX_L10N_DATA and strlcpy.

//Magnus


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