[Privoxy-devel] how costly is --enable-strptime-sanity-checks ?

Ian Silvester iansilvester at fastmail.fm
Mon May 2 00:36:59 UTC 2016


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> The sanity check only detects inconsistencies between strptime()
> and strftime() as this was sufficient to detect the FreeBSD libc bug.
> If both fail consistently the check may not catch it.
> 
> In your example above strftime() seems to reject the date completely,
> but on other platforms it could silently produce incorrect results.

So to be clear am I looking for log entries with evidently wrong
datestamps? 

> 
> Privoxy-Regression-Test doesn't properly check the times either
> and will not detect all possible failures.

Understood.

Ian


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