Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!olnl1!olgb1!olapw From: olapw@olgb1.oliv.co.uk (Tony Walton) Newsgroups: oli.3b,comp.sys.att Subject: Problems with "long format" timezone strings and Starlan Message-ID: <9770@olgb1.oliv.co.uk> Date: 27 Sep 89 11:56:25 GMT Organization: British Olivetti Ltd.,AT&T Division, London, England. Lines: 21 I have recently found a problem with the AT&T Starlan DOS Server program when "long format" TZ strings are used. The TZ string in question was "GMT-1BST;85/02,302/03" (the setting for 1989 in the UK). When the DOS server (/usr/net/servers/msnet/msnetfs) was started, it immediately dumped core and dropped the network connection - the server reported a NET805 error (network has gone down). The TZ strings "GMT" and "GMT0BST" did not cause ths problem, which is seen with Release 3.1 and Release 3.2a of the DOS server. I presume somebody, somewhere, has only reserved a 9-byte buffer for TZ (for a string such as "ZZZ-11DDD") and something is being over-written. The correct people at AT&T are already aware of the problem, but I'm posting this to warn anybody else out there who's using "long format" TZ. -- Tony Walton, AT&T Division, British Olivetti Ltd., Wellington House, 154-160 Upper Richmond Road, London, England SW15 2FN LONDON, SW15 2FN. Tel: (+44) 1 789 6699 Telefax: (+44) 1 785 6670 Telex:27258 Uucp : { ukc | mc[whatever]!olnl1 | ihnp4!cuuxb | iconet | olhqma } !olgb1!olapw