From: wesommer <wesommer>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1987 02:29:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: strsave: Kludged up null ptr handling for compat with version in dcm.
X-Git-Tag: BETA5-24-88~74
X-Git-Url: http://andersk.mit.edu/gitweb/moira.git/commitdiff_plain/0fed7e9b6e630f1ed29833db4260f8107fa82d02

strsave: Kludged up null ptr handling for compat with version in dcm.
Linted.
---

diff --git a/lib/strs.c b/lib/strs.c
index 86f96c9e..284c1f36 100644
--- a/lib/strs.c
+++ b/lib/strs.c
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 static char *rcsid_strs_c = "$Header$";
 #endif lint
 
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <strings.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+extern char *malloc(), *realloc();
 
 /*
  * Random string functions which should be in the C library..
@@ -24,8 +29,17 @@ char *
 strsave(s)
     char *s;
 {
-    register int len = strlen(s) + 1;
-    register char *p = malloc((u_int)len);
+    register int len;
+    register char *p;
+    /* Kludge for sloppy string semantics */
+    if (!s) {
+	    printf("NULL != \"\" !!!!\r\n");
+	    p = malloc(1);
+	    *p = "\0";
+	    return p;
+    }
+    len = strlen(s) + 1;
+    p = malloc((u_int)len);
     if (p) bcopy(s, p, len);
     return p;
 }