X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:43:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Thompson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: localtime In-Reply-To: <4DF8F426.7040705@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4DF8CF3D.40104@gmail.com> <4DF8EA79.2060404@gmail.com> <20110615173847.GB23078@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DF8EF9F.4090906@gmail.com> <20110615174805.GC23078@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DF8F426.7040705@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Tod wrote: > I'm passing a 128 byte char array. I allocated it to provide enough room for > the date/time stamp this function is returning. strlen(tout) will resolve to > the length of the tout string. > > You said above that I shouldn't be using strlen(tout) and instead I should be > passing 128. Would I be better off using sizeof(tout) instead? > > Also, the code has always worked. I just recompiled it recently. Now the > date works but the time isn't appearing. What could be causing that? tout is a char *, so sizeof(tout) in getTime() will be 4 or 8. You will need to change the calling sequence of getTime() to pass the length of tout, which will depend on how you allocated it: char tout[128]; getTime(tout,sizeof(tout)); or char *tout = malloc(128); getTime(tout,128); etc. Steve -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple