Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ST 1.5.0 strlen bug
Message-ID: <1990Feb19.173831.7601@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <943@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 17:38:31 GMT

In article <943@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> stailey@iris613.UUCP (Ken Stailey) writes:
>The strlen distributed with ST 1.5.0 will core dump if it is passed a NULL
>pointer...

All of the string functions will dump core if presented with NULL pointers.
Feeding a NULL pointer to one of them is breaking the rules; the problem
is in your code, not in the string functions.
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