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[krbdev.mit.edu #6548] strptime() doesn't like being touched that way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu via RT)
Wed Aug 19 18:57:07 2009
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I noticed this problem on Mac OS X, but we probably want to fix it in
the general case for portability reasons.
getepochtime(), called by krb5_ldap_get_time(), passes a format string
of "%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ" to strptime(), causing a a return of EINVAL on Mac
OS X when any KDC programs attempt to fetch the master key list when
using an LDAP back end. According to POSIX / SUS, the application
must provide nonalphanumeric separators between format specifiers in
the format string of strptime().
Experimentation with a test program implies that the "%Y" format
specifier to strptime() tries to eat as many digits as it can, which
is about ten. This happens to be the number of decimal digits
required to represent a 32-bit integer...
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