From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 15 3:20: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3658C37B419 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 03:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0FBK2j27860; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 03:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 03:20:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201151120.g0FBK2j27860@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: bin/33834 Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/33834; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/33834 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:15:48 +0200 On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:00:02 PST, "Tim J. Robbins" wrote: > NetBSD's strptime(3) manual page is nice and their strptime() > implementation supports the `tricky' %G %g etc. conversions. > Maybe it'd be best to fix the manual page in 4.x then think about > overhauling strptime for 5.x. I seem to remember Garrett Wollman objecting to replacing our strptime() with NetBSD's, because of some work he'd done on ours that he didn't think we should loose. It might have been David O'Brien, though. I've played around in this area a bit, and I'd recommend building a regression testing suite before contemplating any serious overhaul. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message