The time(2) man page conflicts with glibc

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 13:39:00 GMT 2015


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 sys‐
              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.

Thanks,

Michael

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