[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1032393: Bug#1032393: [PATCH v2 2/2] debian/control: Add libbsd-dev and pkg-config

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 3/11/23 23:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-03-11 14:18, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> 
>> What I'm not sure is that strftime(3) requires nonnull.
> 
> glibc's strftime implementation segfaults if you pass a null pointer, so 
> we can't pass NULL regardless of whether the strftime API in time.h uses 
> __attribute__ ((nonnull))'.

Hmm, please fix the API :-)

So, yes, then that dummy seems to be necessary.  However, then I wonder
if the patch is really "simplifying".  I think strlcpy(3) was simpler.

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