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Re: y2k

1999-04-22 16:21:26
Steve Jordan <U33292(_at_)UICVM(_dot_)UIC(_dot_)EDU> writes:
Is procmailsc, procmailrc, and procmail v3.10 (1994/10/31) y2k compliant?
If not, is there a version which is y2k compliant? Please reply to
SteveJ(_at_)uic(_dot_)edu and not to the procmail list which I am not 
subscribed to.

Your procmail is out of date; upgrade to version 3.13.1.
        http://www.procmail.org/

As for Y2K, the following item was added to the FAQ in version 3.12:

18. Is procmail Y2K safe/compliant?

        Both procmail and formail are Y2K compliant if your system's
        libraries are Y2K compliant.  In particular, they use the
        time_t type to hold the current time when it is needed and
        print out the time using the ctime() library routine.

        For those who have examined the code themselves, the casting of
        a time_t value to unsigned long in formail.c is guaranteed to
        work according to the current version of the C language
        standard.  Future revisions of that standard may change that,
        at which time formail will be updated to work with both the new
        and the old standards.

        Individual recipes and rcfiles may need to be checked for
        unsafe date handling.


Philip Guenther

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