Bug 69101

Summary:	EFAULT is missing from the man-page for open system call [open(2)]
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	mrrosen
Component:	man-pages	Assignee:	documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages)
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	bhaktiparmar101, mtk.manpages
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:		Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description mrrosen 2014-01-20 19:21:37 UTC

Open can generate an EFAULT (errno = 14) if the const char* path is an invalid pointer (ie one that is not accessible). However, while the man-page lists numerous possible error codes open might generate, this one is missing.

Comment 1 Michael Kerrisk 2014-01-21 13:48:42 UTC

I think you've missed something. EFAULT is listed in open(1):

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html#ERRORS