bug in inets or erlang!

[Micael Karlberg]

Hi,

The inets web-server get's the (modification) time from the file-info
record of the file: file:read_file_info(Path). What does this call
give you?

/BMK

Peter Lund wrote:
> Yes, the important question here is if:
> 
>  erlang:universaltime_to_localtime({{1969,12,31},{23,59,59}}).
> 
> really should crash the code just because it is 1 sec too early? No-one 
> seems to have any opinion about it!
> 
> I am running on R10B (5.4.8). How do you figure out which "R10B-NN" it is?
> 
> 
> Regarding why inets made this call when I tried to surf to "/" on my 
> server I do not know. I hoped that some OTP person should fix this. The 
> index.html on the DocumentRoot place was not even close to 36 years old 
> (just a couple of months).
> 
> /Peter
> 
> Matthias Lang wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I started off by wondering why universaltime_to_localtime() doesn't
>> work for the date you gave. The relevant files are
>> erts/emulator/beam/bif.c and erts/emulator/beam/erl_time_sup.c. In 
>> univ_to_local(), there's a rangecheck on the year. If it's less than
>> BASEYEAR, the call fails. BASEYEAR is 1970. Real men don't read
>> manuals, but it'd help all the sissies like me if the manual gave a
>> clue about that.
>>
>> The other question is easier to answer---your trace provides all the
>> information. inets calls univeraltime_to_localtime/1 with an argument
>> from 1969 because the file you tried to get inets to serve has a 
>> modification time from 1969. Take a look at the log to see which file
>> it was.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> peter writes:
>>
>> > After my FreeBSD server running erlang was restarted, suddenly
>> > INETS was not comming up as it was expected to. In the inets
>> > error_log I found:
>> > > > more error_log_16111
>> > [26/Nov/2005:13:14:42 -0000] reporting error: traverse exit from 
>> apply: mod_get:
>> > do =>
>> > 
>> {badarg,[{erlang,universaltime_to_localtime,[{{1969,12,31},{23,59,59}}]},
>> >          {calendar,local_time_to_universal_time_dst,1},
>> >          {httpd_util,rfc1123_date,1},
>> >          {mod_get,get_modification_date,1},
>> >          {mod_get,do_get,1},
>> >          {httpd_response,traverse_modules,2},
>> >          {httpd_response,generate_and_send_response,1},
>> >          {httpd_request_handler,respond,3}]}
>> > > > WHY is inets calling erlang:universaltime_to_localtime/1 with  
>> [{{1969,12,31},{23,59,59}}] ?? Looks like a potential bugg to me OR 
>> should this bug actually be located to the erlang module instead? 
>> Should this call really result in a crach?
>> > > Anyhow to get inets up and running again I had to patch the 
>> calendar.erl module catching for this crash and in that case return 
>> {{1970,1,1},{0,0,0}}. > > What need to change here erlang or some 
>> module in inets?
>> > > /PeterPeter Lund
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