The time(2) man page conflicts with glibc

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2015 09:14, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Given the extreme obsolescence of the argument to `time`, I would
>> recommend that the *kernel* be changed to fire an actual SIGSEGV
>> instead of returning -EFAULT from the syscall version of `time`, and
>> then that can be the documented behavior, with the historic behavior
>> relegated to the BUGS section of the manpage.
>
> meh.  it would be out of character for the kernel to do this.

Why?