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1 | .\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> |
2 | .\" | |
3 | .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or | |
4 | .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as | |
5 | .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of | |
6 | .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
7 | .\" | |
8 | .\" References consulted: | |
9 | .\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual | |
10 | .\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ | |
11 | .\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html | |
12 | .\" | |
59414d48 | 13 | .TH WCSDUP 3 2009-02-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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14 | .SH NAME |
15 | wcsdup \- duplicate a wide-character string | |
16 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
17 | .nf | |
18 | .B #define _GNU_SOURCE | |
19 | .br | |
20 | .B #include <wchar.h> | |
21 | .sp | |
22 | .BI "wchar_t *wcsdup(const wchar_t *" s ); | |
23 | .fi | |
24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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25 | The |
26 | .BR wcsdup () | |
27 | function is the wide-character equivalent | |
28 | of the | |
29 | .BR strdup (3) | |
30 | function. | |
c13182ef | 31 | It allocates and returns a new wide-character string whose initial |
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32 | contents is a duplicate of the wide-character string pointed to by \fIs\fP. |
33 | .PP | |
c13182ef | 34 | Memory for the new wide-character string is |
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35 | obtained with |
36 | .BR malloc (3), | |
60d38add | 37 | and should be freed with |
60a90ecd | 38 | .BR free (3). |
fea681da | 39 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" |
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40 | The |
41 | .BR wcsdup () | |
42 | function returns a pointer | |
c13182ef | 43 | to the new wide-character string, |
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44 | or NULL if sufficient memory was not available. |
45 | .SH ERRORS | |
46 | .TP | |
47 | .B ENOMEM | |
48 | Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string. | |
49 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
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50 | POSIX.1-2008. |
51 | This function is not specified in POSIX.1-2001, | |
52 | and is not widely available on other systems. | |
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53 | .\" present in libc5 and glibc 2.0 and later |
54 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
55 | .BR strdup (3), | |
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56 | .BR wcscpy (3), |
57 | .BR feature_test_macros (7) |