STRDUP (3)

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)