Nobody seemed to check the POSIX standard on this subject.
>From IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 (POSIX Part 1)
Chapter 2.4 Error Numbers, page 24:
[EFAULT] Bad address
The system detected an invalid address in attempting to use
an
argument of a call. The reliable detection of this error is
imple-
mentation defined; however, implementations that do detect
this
condition shall use this value.
For me it seems that POSIX is in favor of the pro-EFAULT camp.
Regards,
Werner
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