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Subject: Re: seg fault and strlen
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> 
> I'm not sure this is the best place to put it... but is it ok for strlen 
> to seg fault your program when you pass a null pointer to it?  just 
> wondering... TTYL...

No, it is not "OK".  It is "*REQUIRED*".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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