Issues w/ timezones on gssftpd

[Philip Prindeville]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

>On Thursday, November 30, 2006 06:37:04 PM -0700 Philip Prindeville 
><philipp at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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>>Ok, if tzset() ran successfully previously, then got called a second time
>>and failed to find its files...  should it clobber previously good
>>results? Or retain them?
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>That question is out of scope for this forum -- we don't get to decide what 
>that API is.  The documentation describes the way in which tzset changes 
>the timezone settings; it does not say anything about it ever leaving them 
>unchanged.
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>I think Ken's conclusion is correct - if you want logging in a chroot jail 
>to produce correct timestamps, then you must set up the jail with the 
>necessary files to enable that to work.  This is a general issue, not a 
>problem with Kerberos or gssftpd, and not one that can be easily worked 
>around.
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>-- Jeff
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Well, if tzset() were to be fixed independently, would my patch
(as last posted) be acceptable?

-Philip