(Problem reported by RELAUNCH DEPT. (GitHub: ceodaradigu).)
* NEWS: Mention this.
* zic.c (namecheck) [_WIN32 || __CYGWIN__]:
Disallow ':' and '\' in file names.
---
NEWS | 4 ++++
zic.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aade45d4..321f1711 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
localtime.c now works again by default on AIX and DragonFly BSD.
+ zic now rejects ‘:’ and ‘\’ in Zone and Link names when running on
+ Microsoft Windows. (Problem reported by RELAUNCH DEPT. (GitHub:
+ ceodaradigu).)
+
Changes to documentation
URLs for release tarballs in tz-link.html have been updated to
diff --git a/zic.c b/zic.c
index fb9ac97a..6e18893a 100644
--- a/zic.c
+++ b/zic.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,12 @@ namecheck(const char *name)
register char const *component = name;
for (cp = name; *cp; cp++) {
unsigned char c = *cp;
+#if defined _WIN32 || defined __CYGWIN__
+ if (c == ':' || c == '\\') {
+ error(N_("file name '%s' contains '%c'"), name, c);
+ return false;
+ }
+#endif
if (noise && !strchr(benign, c)) {
warning((strchr(printable_and_not_benign, c)
? N_("file name '%s' contains byte '%c'")
--
2.55.0
