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

[Oliver Pinter]

On 7/8/15, O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au> wrote:
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>> 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.)
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> 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.

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