library routines should not be checking for NULL pointers passed in,

and then setting errno to EFAULT.  that is balony programming!  they
should keep stumbling along to purposely create a crash, so that the
programmer stops doing that kind of stupid crap.  ok otto

src/lib/libutil/fmt_scaled.3

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: fmt_scaled.3,v 1.2 2003/06/02 11:37:27 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: fmt_scaled.3,v 1.3 2005/10/19 18:48:11 deraadt Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 2001, 2003 Ian Darwin.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The
 buffer must be allocated with at least
 .Dv FMT_SCALED_STRSIZE
 bytes.
-The result will be left-justified in the given space, and null-terminated.
+The result will be left-justified in the given space, and NUL-terminated.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 The
 .Fn scan_scaled
@@ -74,9 +74,6 @@ In case of error, they return \-1, leave
 as is, and set
 .Va errno
 to one of the following values:
-.Dv EFAULT
-if an input pointer is
-.Dv NULL .
 .Dv ERANGE
 if the input string represents a number that is too large to represent.
 .Dv EINVAL

src/lib/libutil/fmt_scaled.c

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: fmt_scaled.c,v 1.7 2005/08/02 21:46:23 espie Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: fmt_scaled.c,v 1.8 2005/10/19 18:48:11 deraadt Exp $	*/
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003 Ian F. Darwin.  All rights reserved.
@@ -76,11 +76,6 @@ scan_scaled(char *scaled, long long *result)
 	unsigned int i, ndigits = 0, fract_digits = 0;
 	long long scale_fact = 1, whole = 0, fpart = 0;
 
-	if (p == NULL || result == NULL) {
-		errno = EFAULT;
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	/* Skip leading whitespace */
 	while (*p && isascii(*p) && isspace(*p))
 		++p;
@@ -197,11 +192,6 @@ fmt_scaled(long long number, char *result)
 	unsigned int i;
 	unit_type unit = NONE;
 
-	if (result == NULL) {
-		errno = EFAULT;
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	abval = (number < 0LL) ? -number : number;	/* no long long_abs yet */
 
 	/* Not every negative long long has a positive representation.

src/lib/libutil/opendisk.3

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: opendisk.3,v 1.2 2001/07/13 22:14:07 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: opendisk.3,v 1.3 2005/10/19 18:48:11 deraadt Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: opendisk.3,v 1.4 1999/07/02 15:49:12 simonb Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -150,11 +150,6 @@ was set in
 or
 .Xr getrawpartition 3
 didn't return a valid partition.
-.It Bq Er EFAULT
-.Fa buf
-was the
-.Dv NULL
-pointer.
 .El
 .Pp
 The

src/lib/libutil/opendisk.c

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: opendisk.c,v 1.3 2004/05/28 07:03:47 deraadt Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: opendisk.c,v 1.4 2005/10/19 18:48:11 deraadt Exp $	*/
 /*	$NetBSD: opendisk.c,v 1.4 1997/09/30 17:13:50 phil Exp $	*/
 
 /*-
@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ opendisk(const char *path, int flags, char *buf, size_t buflen, int iscooked)
 {
 	int f, rawpart;
 
-	if (buf == NULL) {
-		errno = EFAULT;
-		return (-1);
-	}
 	snprintf(buf, buflen, "%s", path);
 
 	if ((flags & O_CREAT) != 0) {