Re: Reg seg. violations

["Bill McEnaney" <bill@rkirkpat.net>]

Maybe another problem is that getenv() expects a pointer, not a string
literal.  It seems to me although a pointer can point to a string
literal, a string literal can't point to anything.  If I'm mistaken,
would someone please say so?

Vivek Katakam wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I  am mainly getting segmentation violation at this code in strlen and
strcpy:
> 
>  printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
> line_buffer = (char *) malloc(strlen(getenv("QUERY_STRING")) + 1);
> strcpy(line_buffer, getenv("QUERY_STRING"));
> 
> at strlen and strcpy when QUERY_STRING is not set .
> Is there a way to handle this? there are a lot of such occurrences.
> 
> Regards,
> Vivek
> 
> 

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