Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:12:09 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Simun Mikecin <numisemis@yahoo.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strdup(NULL) supposed to create SIGSEGV? Message-ID: <87d4og9q6e.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <293918.47889.qm@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Simun Mikecin's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:06:44 -0700 (PDT)") References: <293918.47889.qm@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:06:44 -0700 (PDT), Simun Mikecin <numisemis@yahoo.com> wrote: >>If you're going to quote documents to support your ideas, it's probably >>better to read them first. > > My apologies. My fingers were faster than my mind. But this made me > read it the way I should have done in the first place. And I see that > it says: > > "A null pointer is returned if the new string cannot be created." > > Does that also mean that a null pointer is returned if the input is a > NULL pointer (cause in that case new string could not be created)? No. It means that if the input is *valid* but the is a problem with completing the operation of strdup(validstring), then an error is returned to let you know something bad is going on.
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