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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:41:34 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Modified Wed Oct 17 01:12:26 2001 by John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
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.TH STRDUP 3 1993-04-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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strdup, strndup, strdupa, strndupa \- duplicate a string
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <string.h>
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.BI "char *strdup(const char *" s );
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.B #define _GNU_SOURCE
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.br
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.B #include <string.h>
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.BI "char *strndup(const char *" s ", size_t " n );
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.br
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.BI "char *strdupa(const char *" s );
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.br
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.BI "char *strndupa(const char *" s ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBstrdup\fP() function returns a pointer to a new string which
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is a duplicate of the string \fIs\fP. Memory for the new string is
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obtained with \fBmalloc\fP(3), and can be freed with \fBfree\fP(3).
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The \fBstrndup\fP() function is similar, but only copies at most
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\fIn\fP characters. If \fIs\fP is longer than \fIn\fP, only \fIn\fP
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characters are copied, and a terminating null byte ('\\0') is added.
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2005-10-19 06:54:38 +00:00
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\fBstrdupa\fP() and \fBstrndupa\fP() are similar, but use \fBalloca(3)\fP
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to allocate the buffer. They are only available when using the GNU
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GCC suite, and suffer from the same limitations described in \fBalloca(3)\fP.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The \fBstrdup\fP() function returns a pointer to the duplicated
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string, or NULL if insufficient memory was available.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B ENOMEM
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Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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.\" 4.3BSD-Reno, not (first) 4.3BSD.
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.BR strdup ()
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conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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\fBstrndup\fP(), \fBstrdupa\fP(), and \fBstrndupa\fP() are GNU extensions.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR alloca (3),
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.BR calloc (3),
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.BR free (3),
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.BR malloc (3),
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.BR realloc (3),
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.BR wcsdup (3)
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