[ On Monday, October 1, 2001 at 03:17:22 (+1000), Darren Reed wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pipe(2) and invalid fildes
>
> In some email I received from Bill Sommerfeld, sie wrote:
> > We should leave EFAULT in the man page, and we should clarify that we
> > reserve the right to change the implementation in the future.
> > 
> > The difference between getting EFAULT and getting SIGSEGV/SIGBUS is
> > purely an implementation artifact.
> 
> Shouldn't the documentation reflect the implementation?

I would very much prefer if the documentation pedantically reflected the
implementation.

For example if I want to learn how to write portable code I'll read lots
of documentation from lots of systems and I'll read standards documents.

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