NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       strdup, strndup - duplicate a string

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <string.h>

       char *strdup(const char *s);

       char *strndup(const char *s, size_t size);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       The  strdup()  function	returns  a  pointer to a new string which is a
       duplicate of the string s.  Memory for the new string is obtained  with
       malloc(3), and can be freed with free(3).

       The  strndup()  works  like  strdup() but it only copies the first size
       bytes. It always add a NUL terminator, unlike strncpy(3).

RETURN VALUE    [Toc]    [Back]

       These functions returns a pointer to the duplicated string, or NULL  if
       insufficient memory was available.

ERRORS    [Toc]    [Back]

       ENOMEM Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       SVID 3, BSD 4.3

       strndup() is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       calloc(3), malloc(3), realloc(3), free(3)



GNU				  1993-04-12			     STRDUP(3)