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Remove ancient SCCS tags from the tree, automated scripting, with two minor fixup to keep things compiling. All the common forms in the tree were removed with a perl script. Sponsored by: Netflix
96 lines
2.7 KiB
Groff
96 lines
2.7 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" are met:
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd May 5, 2020
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.Dt STRDUP 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm strdup ,
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.Nm strndup
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.Nd save a copy of a string
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In string.h
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.Ft char *
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.Fn strdup "const char *str"
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.Ft char *
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.Fn strndup "const char *str" "size_t len"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn strdup
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function
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allocates sufficient memory for a copy
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of the string
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.Fa str ,
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does the copy, and returns a pointer to it.
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The memory is allocated with
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.Xr malloc 3
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and should be released with
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.Xr free 3
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when no longer needed.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn strndup
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function copies at most
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.Fa len
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characters from the string
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.Fa str
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always
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.Dv NUL
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terminating the copied string.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If insufficient memory is available, NULL is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to
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.Er ENOMEM .
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Otherwise, the
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.Fn strdup
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family of functions return a pointer to the copied string.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr free 3 ,
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.Xr malloc 3 ,
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.Xr wcsdup 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn strdup
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function is specified by
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.St -p1003.1-2001 .
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The
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.Fn strndup
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function is specified by
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.St -p1003.1-2008 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn strdup
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function first appeared in
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.Bx 4.3 Reno .
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The
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.Fn strndup
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function was added in
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.Fx 7.2 .
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