On 7/8/15, O'Connor, Daniel <darius_at_dons.net.au> wrote: > >> On 8 Jul 2015, at 08:11, Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_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. That's fine, but why changed the behaviour since 2015. May 27.? I have an older FreeBSD/HardenedBSD install, where this test passing. See some previous email in this thread. > > (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 > >Received on Wed Jul 08 2015 - 07:53:43 UTC
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