bin/52691: str[n][case]cmp may cause segmentation violationwith NULL pointers passed

[Peter Pentchev]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:20:37PM +0400, Seva Gluschenko wrote:
> Message of Dag-Erling Smorgrav at May 26 13:53 ...
> 
> DS> Synopsis: str[n][case]cmp may cause segmentation violation with NULL pointers passed
> DS>
> DS> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> DS> State-Changed-By: des
> DS> State-Changed-When: Mon May 26 13:53:02 PDT 2003
> DS> State-Changed-Why:
> DS> The bug is in the application that passes NULL to strcmp.
> 
> Well, sir, can you please quote me some ISO C89 or another standard
> which allows str*cmp not to care about NULL pointers?

I think that in this case, the burden just might be on the programmer;
with all due respect, could you quote any part of the standard that
specifies that str[n]cmp behaves in a special way about NULL pointers?
In my experience, such behavior is usually explicitly documented, such
as the EBADF or EINVAL error returns from select(2), under an 'ERRORS'
or similar section of the standard.  The SUSv3 description of
strncmp(3), available online for a free registration at
http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification/, does not seem to
mention NULL pointers or error conditions anywhere, except for the 'no
errors are defined' sentence in the 'ERRORS' section.

G'luck,
Peter

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