From f812275fe600ee4c74006702f8e95fb487015f68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yash Lala <yashlala@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 17:44:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: Substitute some clunky code with a `strdup()`.

---
 rc.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rc.c b/rc.c
index 4240dd3..622bc37 100644
--- a/rc.c
+++ b/rc.c
@@ -1245,13 +1245,11 @@ do_recursive_mkdir(const char *dir)
     size_t n;
     struct stat st;
 
-    n = strlen(dir);
-    if (n == 0)
+    if (*dir == '\0')
 	 return -1;
 
-    if ((dircpy = malloc(n + 1)) == NULL)
-	 return -1;
-    strcpy(dircpy, dir);
+    if ((dircpy = strdup(dir)) == NULL)
+	 return -1; 
 
     ch = dircpy + 1;
     do {