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Re: The time(2) man page conflicts with glibc
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, linux-man <linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 05:53:57 -0800
- Subject: Re: The time(2) man page conflicts with glibc
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
<mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/2015 03:17 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>> In which way does it conflict?
>>
>> On error, ((time_t) -1) is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
>
>
> So, how would the following text be for the man page?
>
> ERRORS
> EFAULT t points outside your accessible address space. On sysâ
> tems where the C library time() wrapper function invokes
> an implementation provided by the vdso(7) (so that there
> is no trap into the kernel), an invalid address may
> instead trigger a SIGSEGV signal.
>
time never sets errno. You can't tell if it returns error when time
in libc.a is used.
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H.J.