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)