From nobody@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 08:07:34 2000 Return-Path: Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id E3A941529D; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:07:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20000119160733.E3A941529D@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:07:33 -0800 (PST) From: emon@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: y2k problem in troff (e.g. 'man hosts.equiv') X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 16207 >Category: bin >Synopsis: y2k problem in troff (e.g. 'man hosts.equiv') >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: asmodai >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 19 08:10:01 PST 2000 >Closed-Date: Mon Mar 27 11:53:36 PST 2000 >Last-Modified: Mon Mar 27 11:54:19 PST 2000 >Originator: KOMURA Takaaki >Release: 3.3-RELEASE >Organization: Kyoto University (student) >Environment: FreeBSD beat.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 23:40:35 GMT 1999 jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >Description: When I invoked 'man host.equiv' at January 20 2000, I found following in the man page: ---- FreeBSD January 20, 1900 1 ---- >How-To-Repeat: # rm /usr/share/man/cat5/hosts.equiv % man hosts.equiv The following may be printed on the last of man page: ---- FreeBSD January 20, 1900 1 ---- >Fix: /usr/src/contrib/groff/troff/input.cc, line 5546 - set_number_reg("yr", int(tt->tm_year)%100); + set_number_reg("yr", int(tt->tm_year)); >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: emon@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: bin/16207: y2k problem in troff (e.g. 'man hosts.equiv') Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:07:33 -0800 (PST) >Number: 16207 >Category: bin >Synopsis: y2k problem in troff (e.g. 'man hosts.equiv') >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 19 08:10:01 PST 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: KOMURA Takaaki >Release: 3.3-RELEASE >Organization: Kyoto University (student) >Environment: FreeBSD beat.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 23:40:35 GMT 1999 jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >Description: When I invoked 'man host.equiv' at January 20 2000, I found following in the man page: ---- FreeBSD January 20, 1900 1 ---- >How-To-Repeat: # rm /usr/share/man/cat5/hosts.equiv % man hosts.equiv The following may be printed on the last of man page: ---- FreeBSD January 20, 1900 1 ---- >Fix: /usr/src/contrib/groff/troff/input.cc, line 5546 - set_number_reg("yr", int(tt->tm_year)%100); + set_number_reg("yr", int(tt->tm_year)); >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message From: Bill Fenner To: emon@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp, chuckr@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/16207: y2k problem in troff (e.g. 'man hosts.equiv') Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:46:10 -0800 Also see PRs gnu/4930, gnu/8321, bin/9502, and the *roff documentation (which documents that yr is the last 2 digits of the year), and groff v1.15 (which keeps it years since 1900 and adds Y2K fixes to the mandoc and me macros based upon this. ms didn't need fixing and orig_me (from /usr/src/share/me) is not part of groff but also expects yr to be years-since-1900). \(yr holding "the last 2 digits of the year" is broken as designed, since then there is no way for *roff macros to know the century. The fix for bin/9502 made FreeBSD incompatible with everything else; I think it should be reverted. Bill Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->asmodai Responsible-Changed-By: asmodai Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jan 30 12:54:04 PST 2000 Responsible-Changed-Why: I am working on this. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: asmodai State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 27 11:53:36 PST 2000 State-Changed-Why: This was fixed a while ago. >Unformatted: