Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:34:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r319991 - head/share/man/man9 Message-ID: <201706152134.v5FLYhAY083086@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: vangyzen Date: Thu Jun 15 21:34:43 2017 New Revision: 319991 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/319991 Log: copy(9): clarify that copystr() does not return EFAULT The previous wording implied that copystr() could return EFAULT. MFC after: 6 weeks Sponsored by: Dell EMC Modified: head/share/man/man9/copy.9 Modified: head/share/man/man9/copy.9 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man9/copy.9 Thu Jun 15 21:14:48 2017 (r319990) +++ head/share/man/man9/copy.9 Thu Jun 15 21:34:43 2017 (r319991) @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 9, 2011 +.Dd June 15, 2017 .Dt COPY 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -147,16 +147,20 @@ is .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Nm -functions return 0 on success or +functions return 0 on success. +All but +.Fn copystr +return .Er EFAULT if a bad address is encountered. -In addition, the +The .Fn copyin_nofault and .Fn copyout_nofault functions return .Er EFAULT -if a page fault occurs, and the +if a page fault occurs. +The .Fn copystr and .Fn copyinstr
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