On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:06:44 -0700 (PDT), Simun Mikecin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)?
No. It means that if the input is *valid* but the is a problem with completing the operation of strdup(validstring), then an error is returned to let you know something bad is going on. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
