FW: [PATCH] manpage fix

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.08.28 12:24:45 -0500, Steve Price wrote:

> Can someone please verify this patch and get it committed if
> appropriate?  Please Cc me on any replies.  Thanks.

It looks right, but I just forwared to the de facto timezone maintainer
Garrett Wollman for review.  I will get it committed, depending on his
reply.

> ----- Forwarded message from Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> -----
> 
> While looking at the source for libc, I realized that the tzfile.5
> manpage is missing part of the file format, which could seriously
> screw up anybody attempting to parse the file(s).  Attached is a patch
> for this.
> 
> The file is normally found at:
> /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime/tzfile.5
> /usr/share/man/man5/tzfile.5.gz
> 
> This patch is hereby disclaimed under the same license under which
> FreeBSD itself is distributed.
> 
> -Tilghman
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

> --- tzfile.5.old	Fri Aug 17 10:42:43 2001
> +++ tzfile.5.fix	Thu Aug 28 11:15:00 2003
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>  to identify them as
>  time zone information files,
>  followed by sixteen bytes reserved for future use,
> -followed by four four-byte values
> +followed by six four-byte values
>  written in a ``standard'' byte order
>  (the high-order byte of the value is written first).
>  These values are,
> @@ -89,6 +89,13 @@
>  that follow the
>  .Li ttinfo
>  structure(s) in the file.
> +.Pp
> +Then there are
> +.Va tzh_charcnt
> +bytes of ``timezone identification strings'' in standard C
> +(null-terminated) notation.  See
> +.Va tt_abbrind
> +above for how these strings are referenced.
>  .Pp
>  Then there are
>  .Va tzh_leapcnt

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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