Re: link(2) and EFAULT

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Hayes wrote:
> Under what conditions does link() return EFAULT? The man
> page says:
>
>   [EFAULT]  One of the pathnames specified is outside the
>             process's allocated address space.
>
> However I would think that if I had a (char *) pointing
> outside the address space that I would get a segfault
> somewhere before getting this error. How would you even
> handle this error, should your code get it?

Like any other error:  abort or do something else sensible.  Do not check for this error message, that doesn't make much sense.

cheers
 simon