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| 1 | .\" $OpenBSD: strdup.3,v 1.14 2007/05/31 19:19:32 jmc Exp $ | ||
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| 30 | .\" @(#)strdup.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 | ||
| 31 | .\" | ||
| 32 | .Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ | ||
| 33 | .Dt STRDUP 3 | ||
| 34 | .Os | ||
| 35 | .Sh NAME | ||
| 36 | .Nm strdup | ||
| 37 | .Nd save a copy of a string | ||
| 38 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||
| 39 | .Fd #include <string.h> | ||
| 40 | .Ft char * | ||
| 41 | .Fn strdup "const char *s" | ||
| 42 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | ||
| 43 | The | ||
| 44 | .Fn strdup | ||
| 45 | function allocates sufficient memory for a copy of the string | ||
| 46 | .Fa s , | ||
| 47 | does the copy, and returns a pointer to it. | ||
| 48 | The pointer may subsequently be used as an argument to the function | ||
| 49 | .Xr free 3 . | ||
| 50 | .Pp | ||
| 51 | If insufficient memory is available, | ||
| 52 | .Dv NULL | ||
| 53 | is returned. | ||
| 54 | .Sh EXAMPLES | ||
| 55 | The following will point | ||
| 56 | .Va p | ||
| 57 | to an allocated area of memory containing the NUL-terminated string | ||
| 58 | .Qq foobar : | ||
| 59 | .Bd -literal -offset indent | ||
| 60 | char *p; | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | if ((p = strdup("foobar")) == NULL) { | ||
| 63 | fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory.\en"); | ||
| 64 | exit(1); | ||
| 65 | } | ||
| 66 | .Ed | ||
| 67 | .Sh ERRORS | ||
| 68 | The | ||
| 69 | .Fn strdup | ||
| 70 | function may fail and set the external variable | ||
| 71 | .Va errno | ||
| 72 | for any of the errors specified for the library function | ||
| 73 | .Xr malloc 3 . | ||
| 74 | .Sh SEE ALSO | ||
| 75 | .Xr free 3 , | ||
| 76 | .Xr malloc 3 , | ||
| 77 | .Xr strcpy 3 , | ||
| 78 | .Xr strlcpy 3 , | ||
| 79 | .Xr strlen 3 | ||
| 80 | .Sh HISTORY | ||
| 81 | The | ||
| 82 | .Fn strdup | ||
| 83 | function first appeared in | ||
| 84 | .Bx 4.4 . | ||
