On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> ... AIX strndup is severely broken, at least on 4.3.3 and 5.1, similar
> to its strnlen; see also[1]. See for example this test:
>
> $ cat >a.c <<\EOF
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> extern char *strndup (const char *, size_t);
> int main()
> {
> char *s = strndup ("STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLEx", 21);
> printf ("%s.\n", s);
> free (s);
> printf ("%s.\n", strndup("OTHER_WRITABLE 3", 14));
> }
> EOF
> $ cc -o a a.c && ./a
> STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE.
> OTHER_WRITABLERITABLE.
I tried this on AIX 5.2 and it gave the same result. AIX 5.3 didn't
though.
--
albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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