From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:55:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (print_long_format): Don't dump core if strftime returns the empty string.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_36~137
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=857c948551fe825421340410762ba0e4b5381345;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(print_long_format): Don't dump core if strftime returns the empty string.
---

diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index ed1783da7e..ac9a37ab1f 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2453,7 +2453,10 @@ print_long_format (const struct fileinfo *f)
 
   if ((when_local = localtime (&when)))
     {
-      while (! (s = strftime (p, buf + bufsize - p - 1, fmt, when_local)))
+      *p = '\1';
+
+      while (! (s = strftime (p, buf + bufsize - p - 1, fmt, when_local))
+	     && *p)
 	{
 	  char *newbuf = (char *) alloca (bufsize *= 2);
 	  memcpy (newbuf, buf, p - buf);