Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:40:23 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Simun Mikecin <numisemis@yahoo.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strdup(NULL) supposed to create SIGSEGV? Message-ID: <20080423124023.54ca505e@mbook-fbsd> In-Reply-To: <293918.47889.qm@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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)?
Are you sure? I'd say that the act of returning a NULL pointer created
the not-really-a-string that was passed in.
<mike
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