From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Subject: Re: The time(2) man page conflicts with glibc
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:38:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5671696B.3070203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOr_Ydg5Nr7aV8vS0vYEFehSwFBuxrMAnCFXyyVoTF4vJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-15 13:58 The time(2) man page conflicts with glibc H.J. Lu
2015-12-15 14:14 ` Zack Weinberg
[not found] ` <CAKCAbMj-X+wLKX3=MDm9z3L9zyikemxCNggu2bfw6=o6K5PGgg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-12-15 14:55 ` Mike Frysinger
[not found] ` <20151215145517.GR11489-UgUKS2FnFs9+urZeOPWqwQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 15:19 ` Zack Weinberg
[not found] ` <CAKCAbMh2ysZPQe3oOSjcPsx1_pcnCAQ6yf+gMbv6iDmvfnGXZA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 18:38 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-12-16 7:08 ` Rich Felker
[not found] ` <20151216070839.GE238-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 20:34 ` Mike Frysinger
[not found] ` <20151216203432.GR11489-UgUKS2FnFs9+urZeOPWqwQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 21:59 ` Rich Felker
[not found] ` <20151216215955.GJ238-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 22:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2015-12-16 22:44 ` Rich Felker
[not found] ` <20151216224432.GK238-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 22:51 ` Zack Weinberg
2015-12-17 3:15 ` Mike Frysinger
[not found] ` <CAMe9rOoJLk8VzyJKmkOvbmBxhCj4mVA2huYtHJsdxpatbkgJ1g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 14:16 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] ` <mvmegen94qs.fsf-8jEJWzg51KSXcDkGTvBoYw@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 14:17 ` H.J. Lu
2015-12-16 13:38 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
[not found] ` <5671696B.3070203-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 13:53 ` H.J. Lu
[not found] ` <CAMe9rOqsxCEia7OWqzJ-HzZWCra5BTyYqt4japjZTw0pY=fugw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 14:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <56717032.7000007-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 14:50 ` Zack Weinberg
[not found] ` <CAKCAbMjrKfsT7P=Q=+1zWC68552aK=ciod0HYk3=HWMvkYW26w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 15:04 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-12-16 23:05 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <5671EE36.1000402-764C0pRuGfqVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-17 5:53 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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