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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] libc/strcmp bug?
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:46:35 -0400
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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.