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diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate/0001-Support-system-dates-back-to-the-year-1970.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate/0001-Support-system-dates-back-to-the-year-1970.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b544ec6661 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate/0001-Support-system-dates-back-to-the-year-1970.patch @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Support system dates back to the year 1970 + +The system time on Linux can be set back as far as 1970 (the epoch time). +Currently logrotate stops working correctly if the time goes before 1996. +This value (1996) appears to have been hard coded since the code was written +back in 1996. Testing and code analysis shows this can simply be modified +to 1970. + +The patch is provided by Matt Bennett <matt.bennett@alliedtelesis.co.nz> + +Upstream-Status: Backport + +Signed-off-by: Zhenbo Gao <zhenbo.gao@windriver.com> + +diff --git a/logrotate.c.orig b/logrotate.c +index cf8bf2c..a7dadfb 100644 +--- a/logrotate.c.orig ++++ b/logrotate.c +@@ -2381,7 +2381,7 @@ static int readState(char *stateFilename) + } + + /* Hack to hide earlier bug */ +- if ((year != 1900) && (year < 1996 || year > 2100)) { ++ if ((year != 1900) && (year < 1970 || year > 2100)) { + message(MESS_ERROR, + "bad year %d for file %s in state file %s\n", year, + argv[0], stateFilename); + |