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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 2015 12:22:03 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>
Cc:        Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@dyslexicfish.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gettimeofday((void *)-1, NULL) implicates core dump on recent FreeBSD 11-CURRENT
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On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:17, Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> wrote:

> As far as I can tell, POSIX doesn't require either EFAULT or any other
> behaviour - the text in =
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/open/n4217.pdf
> just says, "No errors are defined". Our man page is wrong and any real
> program which relies on gettimeofday not faulting when given bad =
inputs is
> broken.

I would suggest the following:
1. Document behavior in NOTES about gettimeofday returning EFAULT with =
the specific scenarios kib mentioned, segfaulting otherwise =
(wordsmithing the actual info of course). Otherwise, it might confuse =
people who look at the manpage later.
2. I=92ll add a `#ifdef __FreeBSD__` to the testcase which will then =
skip it, because it=92s easier to do that then test undefined behavior =
that only makes sense on NetBSD.
Thanks!
-NGie

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