On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/15/2015 03:17 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> 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. > time never sets errno. You can't tell if it returns error when time in libc.a is used. -- H.J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
