strdup(3)

NAME
strdup, strndup - duplicate a string

LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>

char *strdup(const char *s);

char *strndup(size_t n;
              const char s[n], size_t n);

    Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

strdup():
    _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
        || /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

strndup():
    Since glibc 2.10:
        _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
    Before glibc 2.10:
        _GNU_SOURCE

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).

The strndup() function is similar, but copies at most n bytes. If s is longer than n, only n bytes are copied, and a terminating null byte ('\0') is added.

RETURN VALUE
On success, the strdup() function returns a pointer to the duplicated string. It returns NULL if insufficient memory was available, with errno set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

ENOMEM
    Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value
 | Thread safety | MT-Safe

STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

strdup()
    SVr4, 4.3BSD-Reno, POSIX.1-2001.

strndup()
    POSIX.1-2008.

SEE ALSO
alloca(3), calloc(3), free(3), malloc(3), realloc(3), string(3), strdupa(3), strndupa(3), wcsdup(3)