Re: lua crashing on unrecognized strings

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

Yeah, http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo works if you call os.date"%i". I've 
reported this on LuaForge.

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From: "Stuart P.Bentley" <stuart@testtrack4.com>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 A5:52
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
To: <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Subject: lua crashing on unrecognized strings

> Using the lua.exe interpreter provided with Lua for Windows, passing any 
> letter to (os.date("%"..letter)) other than a-d, j, m, p, w-z, A, B, H, I, 
> M, S, U, or W-Z is causing to crash (as in "has encountered a problem and 
> needs to close" crash). This also happens when calling io.open with any 
> undefined format string.
>
> That can't be right, can it? (At the very least %C, %D, %e, %h, %n, %r, 
> %R, %t, %T, %u, and %V should evaluate as they are defined in the standard 
> (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html).)