[BusyBox] strdup versus xstrdup

[Erik Andersen]

On Sat Nov 10, 2001 at 06:39:32PM +1100, Steve Merrifield wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> What is the feeling towards the use of strdup() versus xstrdup() ?
>  
> Some applets use one, some use the other. Some use both! I note
> one of the janitorial tasks is to replace the use of strdup() with
> xstrdup().
>  
> Is there a need for this? Is anyone working on it? Would anyone
> mind if I went through the entire tree and replaced all occurences
> of strdup() with xstrdup() ?

That would be excellent.  Just be careful to also remove
any code checking the result of a strdup for NULL, and
check for any code that should fail gracefully on failure,

 -Erik

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