Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.6

Tom Christensen tgc at jupiterrise.com
Mon Aug 16 06:34:22 EST 2010


On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 03:32:19PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:11:01PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Darren Tucker wrote:
> [...]
> > > I think a better way of doing this longer term is to have a dummy
> > > strptime implementation in the compat library, but that can wait until
> > > after the release since it risks linking problems elsewhere.
> > 
> > Actually, OpenBSD's strptime isn't too tangled if you chop out the
> > locale stuff. We don't actually use any of that anyway, just the numeric
> > converters. Here is a stab at a port, but it is late here and I'm
> > too tired to test it (it assumes you have the configure bits done already).
> 
> Here's an update with the configure bits done, and some compile errors
> fixed.  I also put up a complete tarball at
> http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dtucker/tmp/openssh-strptime.tar.gz
> 
The build completes and basic functionality is working.
Thanks!

There are some hangs in the regression tests but I don't presently have
results from previous versions to compare against so I can't tell if
this is a new problem.

-tgc


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