diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'src/common/compat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/compat.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c index 629304377f..87fe84cb4b 100644 --- a/src/common/compat.c +++ b/src/common/compat.c @@ -2364,7 +2364,12 @@ tor_gettimeofday(struct timeval *timeval) #define TIME_FNS_NEED_LOCKS #endif -/* DOCDOC correct_tm */ +/** Helper: Deal with confused or out-of-bounds values from localtime_r and + * friends. (On some platforms, they can give out-of-bounds values or can + * return NULL.) If <b>islocal</b>, this is a localtime result; otherwise + * it's from gmtime. The function returned <b>r</b>, when given <b>timep</b> + * as its input. If we need to store new results, store them in + * <b>resultbuf</b>. */ static struct tm * correct_tm(int islocal, const time_t *timep, struct tm *resultbuf, struct tm *r) |