On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:04 am, Manuel Sugawara wrote:
> > I see. This behavior is consistent with the fact that mktime is
> > supposed to return -1 on error, but then is broken in every other Unix
> > implementation that I know.
>
> > Any other workaround than downgrade or install FreeBSD?
>
> Complain to Red Hat. Loudly. However, as this is a glibc change, other
> distributors are very likely to fold in this change sooner rather than
> later.
Relying on nonstandardized/nondocumented behaviour is a program bug, not a
glibc bug. PostgreSQL needs fixing. Since we ship both, we're looking at
it, but glibc is not the component with a problem.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
