Bug in expire: uninitialized pointer (FULLSYSNAME)

[Larry Campbell]

> I'm having problems porting news 2.10.2 to the 68000, which barfs on
> NULL pointers.  Expire core dumps on me, when in hread() it tries to
> copy (via strcpy()) FULLSYSNAME to bfr.  At this point, FULLSYSNAME is
> NULL (uninitialized), so the call is essentially strcpy(bfr, 0).  I
> suspect that this bug is pervasive throughout the code.
> 
> Has anyone made the appropriate modifications to avoid this problem?
> Could you send me the fixes, or pointers (no pun intended) to where I
> can get working code?
> -- 
> Ken Turkowski @ (CADLINC --> CIMLINC), Menlo Park, CA
> UUCP: {amd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,spar}!turtlevax!ken
> ARPA: turtlevax!ken at DECWRL.ARPA

Why not just write and link with a version of strcpy that doesn't
try to dereference null pointers?