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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: tzname comment in tests/libclink/check.cc (something for Esa?)
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 ams AT ludd DOT ltu DOT se wrote:

> Hello.
>
> There's this interesting comment in tests/libclink/check.cc:
> /* Note: tzname is POSIX, but we list it here because it is a datum,
>    not a function, and we can't stub it.  ctime() sets tzname, and
>    ctime is ANSI and tzname is POSIX.  Sigh. */
>
> Couldn't this be corrected in the same way that we corrected environ
> pollution?

Yes, it probably could be.  OTOH, I don't see any compelling reason to
do so; any program that uses tzname is supposed to call tzset first, so
we could have tzset copy the values of tzname from an internal variable
(and ctime and other ANSI functions would only use and set this internal
variable).

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/