STRDUP

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: April 12, 1993
 

NAME

strdup - duplicate a string  

SYNOPSIS

#include <string.h>

char *strdup(const char *s);
 

DESCRIPTION

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).  

RETURN VALUE

The strdup() function returns a pointer to the duplicated string, or NULL if insufficient memory was available.  

ERRORS

ENOMEM
Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.
 

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, BSD 4.3  

SEE ALSO

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