Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:34:22 +0930 From: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Cc: oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gettimeofday((void *)-1, NULL) implicates core dump on recent FreeBSD 11-CURRENT Message-ID: <94BCDA65-5B86-4329-A312-4CB16E847B69@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <201507072241.t67MfsX5085860@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <CAPQ4ffuTcN_ytcH7GPY0s6OqWK9qo6MGaVZhOB%2B0ojWfd=fNCg@mail.gmail.com> <201507072241.t67MfsX5085860@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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> On 8 Jul 2015, at 08:11, Garrett Wollman = <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote: > Perhaps the test was (erroneously) written to assume that > gettimeofday() was a system call, and could therefore detect invalid > pointers and return [EFAULT]. This has not been the case for some > time. (In HEAD, not since r237434, which is three years ago.) In defence of the test, the man page says it can return EFAULT. (IMO the man page and test should change..) -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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