Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 01:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: gnu/2610: strdup will cause you app to core if passed a NULL string Message-ID: <199701290930.BAA21492@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/2610; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: Thomas.Traylor@mci.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/2610: strdup will cause you app to core if passed a NULL string Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:05:36 +0100 As Thomas S Traylor wrote: > >Number: 2610 > >Category: gnu Well, `gnu' is the wrong category, but nevermind. > The library function strdup does not handle a NULL string being > passed to it. When you do the application cores. Then don't do it. It's not supposed to `duplicate' a NULL pointer, i think. What would you exect from it? Another NULL pointer? How do you distinguish it from ``Out of memory''? Neither of the strxxx() functions accept NULL pointers, so i won't see a reason for strdup(). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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