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On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> 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...
> John-Mark

It's called Null Pointer Reference. And yes it's okay =)

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