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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 1996 17:03:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject:   Re: seg fault and strlen
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960310170333.1843B-100000@nervosa.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960309013951.7129A-100000@nike.efn.org>

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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 =)

== Chris Layne =============================================================
== coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==




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