Re: declaration of strptime

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:28:57 +0200
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:

> 
>  >> Nothing. The man page is explicit about what standards it belongs
>  >> it and the header reflects that.
> 
> > I don't agree.  The linux man page for strptime() starts
> 
> >        #define _XOPEN_SOURCE /* glibc2 needs this */
> >        #include <time.h>
> 
> >        char *strptime(const char *s, const char *format, struct tm
> > *tm);
> 
> > which is a lot friendlier.
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strptime.html
> 
> For what reason they want _XOPEN_SOURCE?
> 
> I think this is a bug of glibc (2.3.6, Debian/etch).
> 
> BYI:
> http://www.phpman.info/index.php?parameter=strptime&mode=man
> 
> (year 2003)
> 
> strptime.1 from Debian/etch is dated 2001. Fixed in latest glibc?
> 
I just installed the development headers on an Ubuntu 7.10 box.  The
declaration of strptime is most definitely conditional.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb