I don't know whether this is a BSD-specific problem or exists in the current tzcode, but I figured I might forward it here in case it does. -GAWollman ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Message-Id: <199610082133.OAA28831@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Karst.Koymans@phil.ruu.nl Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/1740: Setting TZ to unusual values crashes applications using localtime Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:33:13 -0700 (PDT)

Number: 1740 Category: bin Synopsis: Setting TZ to unusual values crashes applications using localtime Confidential: no Severity: non-critical Priority: low Responsible: freebsd-bugs State: open Class: sw-bug Submitter-Id: current-users Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 8 14:40:02 PDT 1996 Last-Modified: Originator: Karst Koymans Organization: Utrecht University Release: 960501 snapshot Environment: Description: Setting TZ to unusual values like "Europe" crashes all applications using the localtime routine. This is because the tzload routine happily opens any file, even directories, as valid timezone files. "Europe" happens to be a directory under /usr/share/zoneinfo. How-To-Repeat: TZ=Europe date Fix:

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