Re: gettimeofday((void *)-1, NULL) implicates core dump on recent FreeBSD 11-CURRENT

From: O'Connor, Daniel <darius_at_dons.net.au>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:34:22 +0930
> 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.

(IMO the man page and test should change..)

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