Strcpy fun w/ Ultrix

[Robert Steven Glickstein]

> Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.lang.c: 27-Apr-89 Strcpy fun w/ Ultrix
> tim at scsmo1.UUCP (618)


> I ran accross a problem with strcpy in ultrix, for some reason it will
> not return its first argument.  This is something like the "buged" code:
> x->name=strcpy(malloc(strlen(in)+1),in);
> The solution was:
> strcpy(x->name=malloc(strlen(in)+1),in);

Danger, Will Robinson!  Bad programming style alert!

Do you WANT to dump core if malloc returns NULL?

-Bob Glickstein