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1 | .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) |
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12 | .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this |
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20 | .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by |
21 | .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. | |
22 | .\" | |
23 | .\" References consulted: | |
24 | .\" Linux libc source code | |
25 | .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) | |
26 | .\" 386BSD man pages | |
27 | .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:41:34 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
28 | .\" Modified Wed Oct 17 01:12:26 2001 by John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> | |
cc4615cc | 29 | .TH STRDUP 3 2007-07-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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30 | .SH NAME |
31 | strdup, strndup, strdupa, strndupa \- duplicate a string | |
32 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
33 | .nf | |
34 | .B #include <string.h> | |
35 | .sp | |
36 | .BI "char *strdup(const char *" s ); | |
37 | .sp | |
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38 | .BI "char *strndup(const char *" s ", size_t " n ); |
39 | .br | |
40 | .BI "char *strdupa(const char *" s ); | |
41 | .br | |
42 | .BI "char *strndupa(const char *" s ", size_t " n ); | |
fea681da | 43 | .fi |
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44 | .sp |
45 | .in -4n | |
46 | Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see | |
47 | .BR feature_test_macros (7)): | |
48 | .in | |
49 | .sp | |
50 | .BR strdup (): | |
51 | _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 | |
52 | .br | |
53 | .BR strndup (), | |
54 | .BR strdupa (), | |
55 | .BR strndupa (): | |
56 | _GNU_SOURCE | |
fea681da | 57 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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58 | The |
59 | .BR strdup () | |
60 | function returns a pointer to a new string which | |
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61 | is a duplicate of the string \fIs\fP. |
62 | Memory for the new string is | |
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63 | obtained with |
64 | .BR malloc (3), | |
65 | and can be freed with | |
66 | .BR free (3). | |
fea681da | 67 | |
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68 | The |
69 | .BR strndup () | |
70 | function is similar, but only copies at most | |
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71 | \fIn\fP characters. |
72 | If \fIs\fP is longer than \fIn\fP, only \fIn\fP | |
28d88c17 | 73 | characters are copied, and a terminating null byte ('\\0') is added. |
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75 | .BR strdupa () |
76 | and | |
77 | .BR strndupa () | |
78 | are similar, but use | |
79 | .BR alloca (3) | |
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80 | to allocate the buffer. |
81 | They are only available when using the GNU | |
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82 | GCC suite, and suffer from the same limitations described in |
83 | .BR alloca (3). | |
fea681da | 84 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" |
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85 | The |
86 | .BR strdup () | |
87 | function returns a pointer to the duplicated | |
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88 | string, or NULL if insufficient memory was available. |
89 | .SH ERRORS | |
90 | .TP | |
91 | .B ENOMEM | |
92 | Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string. | |
93 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
b14d4aa5 | 94 | .\" 4.3BSD-Reno, not (first) 4.3BSD. |
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95 | .BR strdup () |
96 | conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. | |
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97 | .BR strndup (), |
98 | .BR strdupa (), | |
99 | and | |
100 | .BR strndupa () | |
101 | are GNU extensions. | |
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102 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
103 | .BR alloca (3), | |
104 | .BR calloc (3), | |
105 | .BR free (3), | |
106 | .BR malloc (3), | |
1709027c | 107 | .BR realloc (3), |
cc4615cc | 108 | .BR wcsdup (3) |