Bug#340898: time(2) has wrong return value

[Pierre HABOUZIT]

Version: 2.3.6.ds1-10

  This is fixed (long time ago) now, as it now crashes.

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Bug#340898: time(2) has wrong return value

[Michael Kerrisk]

Jim,

I have logged a bug report with glibc folk.

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1952


Cheers,

Michael

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Bug#340898: time(2) has wrong return value

[Michael Kerrisk]

> With libc6 2.3.5-6 on i386, this program:
>
>   #include 
>   #include 
>   main() { printf("%d\n",(int)time((time_t *)123)); }
>
> prints "-14".  The time(2) manpage says it would return -1.  I don't
> know if this is a documentation error or a glibc bug, but the man page
> appears old so I figured I'd start here.

Jim,

A little experimentation makes me think this is a bug in glibc,
but I have not spotted what could be the cause.
I suspect the -14 relates to EFAULT (error number 14), but
this should not be getting returned as the function result.
I suggest reassigning this bug, or perhaps raising a report
in http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/.

Cheers,

Michael

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Bug#340898: time(2) has wrong return value

[Jim Paris]

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.02-2
Severity: minor

With libc6 2.3.5-6 on i386, this program:

  #include 
  #include 
  main() { printf("%d\n",(int)time((time_t *)123)); }

prints "-14".  The time(2) manpage says it would return -1.  I don't
know if this is a documentation error or a glibc bug, but the man page
appears old so I figured I'd start here.

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