Core dump calling strptime()

[David Arnstein]

Here is a very short test program that causes a "core dump." Please 
compile it using the command
	gcc -Wall testspt.c -o testspt

Run the resulting executable testspt.exe with no arguments. Core dump 
ensues.

The attached file cygcheck.out is the output from the command
	cygcheck -s -v -r
from the computer where I compiled and executed testspt.exe.

In case anyone cares, I get this problem when I compile and use 
newsyslog in Cygwin. Newsyslog calls strptime() several times on the 
same message string, trying to find a parsing method that it recognizes. 
It is to be expected that strptime() will fail often, but it is NOT 
reasonable to core dump, in my opinion.

File testspt.c:
--------------
#include <time.h>

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
     char* retval;
     struct tm tms;
     char message[] =
         "INFO      Nov 17 09:31:01 [67284]: Initializing tinyproxy ...";

     retval = strptime (message, "%c", &tms);

     return 0;
}
-- 
David Arnstein
arnstein@pobox.com
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