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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] libc/strcmp bug?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:46:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0208100044580.7304-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0cf514486f2161d7c2d87f0ee5806b6@centurytel.net>



On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

> I believe there is a bug in /sys/src/libc/port/strcmp.c, because it
> does not check for null pointers getting passed in before
> dereferencing them.

Not a libc bug.  Making sure that arguments of strcmp() are non-NULL is
responsibility of caller.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-10  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-10  0:35 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-08-10  4:46 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2002-08-10  5:44   ` arisawa
2002-08-10 23:43 ` david presotto
2002-08-10  3:23 Skip Tavakkolian

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