It will affect people who use braindead sorting algorithms in things like perl to sort dates in unix time() format. I guarantee it will be a bigger problem than Y2K, but that is not saying much at all. On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:03:30AM +0200, Rķkharšur Egilsson wrote: > > Has anybody done any research in what production systems (web, mail- > servers, OSes etc) might have a problem at : > > perl -e 'print localtime(1000000000) . "\n";' > > The only thing I have found, so far, is this (old) version of KMail : > http://dot.kde.org/985599243/ > > The whole issue, and the absense of any discussion, looks like either, > > (1) A disaster just waiting to happen or > > (2) A non-problem. > > Personally my wote is for (2). > > For vulnerable systems, there might be a problem if the system accepts > dates from users and a user enters a date after September 9th 2001. > (buffer overflow ?) > > -- > Rķkharšur Egilsson - Networking/Security EXD/ITN/CCO > OECD/OCDE - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- -- Joseph A. Mallett http://srcsys.org xMach Core Team, www.xMach.org
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