Fix up both r299764 and r299770

Fix up both r299764 and r299770

nitems was wrong too, as it was being tested against a pointer instead of a buffer on
the stack.

Since the old code was just doing malloc, then strlcpy'ing the contents of the source
buffer into the destination buffer, replace it all with a call to strdup..

Reported by: bde
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC with: r299764, r299770
Supersized Duncecap to: ngie
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division