[Patch] RFE new API - gettimezone

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 2 April 2014 18:44, P J P <pj.pandit@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>    Hello,
>
> WRT BZ#1077902 [1], please find attached herein, a patch to add the new API - gettimezone(),
> which returns local time zone information in the form of a POSIX TZ environment variable string.
> The API reads the '/etc/localtime' file to fetch the said information.
>
> Could someone please help me with the patch review and other comments that could be helpful for the development of this API.
> --
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077902#c2

Hey PJP,

Patches go to libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, this mailing list is
for general questions.  You might want to take a look at the
contribution checklist:

http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist

Also, you might want to post the patch inline rather than as an
attachment since it makes reviews easier.

Finally, I took a quick look at the patch and it looks like more of an
independent program to demo a function rather than something that
actually builds into glibc.  There are several other changes you'll
need to change to get there, like:

- Avoid using the hardcoded strings and use those defined in glibc instead
- Modifying time/Makefile to get gettimezone to build.
- Adding a symbol to time/Versions to export a symbol for gettimezone.

Siddhesh
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