strdup(NULL) supposed to create SIGSEGV?

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2008-04-23 07:40, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>      I made an oops in a program, which uncovered "feature" in strdup(2)
> that I wasn't aware of before. So I was wondering, is strdup(pointer = NULL)
> supposed to segfault should this just return NULL and set errno?

It could, in fact, tear up the fabric of the universe, or blow up your
machine, if it wanted. :)