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| -rw-r--r-- | src/date.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/date.c b/src/date.c index 36bc01feb..591264e5c 100644 --- a/src/date.c +++ b/src/date.c @@ -399,8 +399,14 @@ show_date (const char *format, time_t when) { out_length += 200; out = (char *) xrealloc (out, out_length); + + /* Mark the first byte of the buffer so we can detect the case + of strftime producing an empty string. Otherwise, this loop + would not terminate when date was invoked like this + `LANG=de date +%p' on a system with good language support. */ + out[0] = '\1'; } - while (strftime (out, out_length, format, tm) == 0); + while (strftime (out, out_length, format, tm) == 0 && out[0] != '\0'); printf ("%s\n", out); free (out); |