On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback.
> >
> > I wonder if you noticed that this code was from the Auth/Access stuff
> > you did for me a while back ... so I'll patch mine but you might want to
> > take a look at the places you are using it ...
>
> Actually, I didn't. Does this mean that strcasecmp(3) on FreeBSD doesn't
> segfault when given NULL pointers? Or does this mean that the version of
> Apache at the time (1.3.6 and 1.3.9) didn't have this problem? The code
> in Apache hasn't changed since then, so I assume a difference between BSD
> and Linux libc.
Yikes. I'm JAPH -- this (behavior of OS functions on different Unices) is
out of my purview, I'm afraid. However, it is true that the identical code
has worked on FreeBSD with Apache 1.3.[9-current or so] for at least a
year without problems.
HTH,
Nick
