Incorrect timestamp logging in gssftpd (krb5-workstation)

[Philip Prindeville]

Ok, since I don't seem to have picked the right place to
post, can someone at least point me in the correct direction?

-Philip

Philip Prindeville wrote:

>I found a situation (fairly common, actually) under which gssftpd
>generates incorrect timestamps as a result of chroot()ing and losing
>access to the /etc/localtime file (it surprises me that localtime(3)
>doesn't cache the file's contents in glibc... oh, well).
>
>I came up with a work-around for this which is fairly simple.
>
>Can someone else code review it?  And if the Kerberos folks
>(krbdev) don't want to include the fix (I sent it to them, but didn't
>hear back) what's the criteria for it being included in the Redhat/
>Fedora packaging instead?
>
>Here's the bug report (fix included):
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216356
>
>-Philip
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