[cvsnt] CVSNT 1.11.1.3-75 crashs when adding file with modification time in the future

Anthony Williams anthony.williamsNOSPAM at anthonyw.cjb.net
Wed Mar 12 08:38:43 GMT 2003


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tmh at nodomain.org (Tony Hoyle) writes:
> I found something like this recently with openssl.  There a bug in the MS CRT
> which erroneously returns NULL for all dates outside a narrow range (I guess
> 1970-2038).  This causes openssl to execute random code & presumably causes
> CVS to crash...  Not sure of the answer, really, untill MS start to use a
> 64bit time_t .

like __time64_t? Just about every function X that uses time_t has a function
_X64 which uses __time64_t in the Windows CRT (win98 onwards).
 
> Tony (thinking the Y2.038K bug will be far worse than the Y2K).

Probably

Anthony
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