On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, der Mouse wrote:

# If the manpage is the correct interface definition for pipe(2), then
# our implementation is imply *broken*, because if you pass an invalid
# pointer, you *don't* get EFAULT back - you get a VM signal in libc.

Aren't you supposed to get EFAULT back instead of a core signal on
system calls?  I thought it was that way since it was the shortest path
to the return.

# However, it also seems to me that EFAULT is a kludge: such errors
# really *ought* to produce SIGBUS/SIGSEGV, and that they don't is a
# historical artifact.  I would favor leaving it basically as it is,
# except with a little text added:
#
#      [EFAULT]      The fildes buffer is in an invalid area of the process's
#                    address space.  (An appropriate signal, SIGBUS or
#                    SIGSEGV, may be generated instead of returning in this
#                    case.)
#
# Indeed, as I think someone already suggested, I would say that _all_
# EFAULT returns, with the possible exception of any that are actually
# overloading EFAULT to indicate some other error, should have similar
# language added, probably with a note in intro(2) as well.

...what else would you use EFAULT for?

...and if EFAULT is not used to indicate something that would, in
userland, generate a SIGBUS or SIGSEGV, do we need to keep the errno?

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